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Attempt to conceal the truth
Answer for the clue "Attempt to conceal the truth ", 8 letters:
cover-up
Word definitions for cover-up in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ People would suspect a cover-up if public hearings aren't held. ▪ Some people suspect that government officials were involved in a cover-up of the incident. ▪ The Watergate cover-up eventually led to Nixon's resignation. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also coverup , "means or act of concealing" some event or activity, 1922, from verbal phrase, from cover (v.) + up (adv.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence or other embarrassing information. In a passive cover-up, information is simply not provided; in an active cover-up, deception is used. The expression ...
Usage examples of cover-up.
With cover-up men absent, Furbish could leave the Maribar as safely as he had come there.
Last night, Hawkeye had learned that Koker Hosch was going on a cover-up job.
She wears a kanga cloth of cotton, the type sold to tourists as a cover-up.
A dab of cover-up under her eyes, a smidge of brown liner and mascara, a slick of pink gloss on her lips.
That produced a result that Duke Unrig had always wanted to avoid - action from the cover-up crew that the big-shot had posted in the vicinity.
All through, it was a game of cover-up and the most cooperative persons--Jane Verril for example-- might be leading anybody into eventual destruction through the cancel-off process that seemed so greatly in vogue.
Jake could see the two of them huddled like thieves on the bridge, plotting every detail of the antismoking campaign and the subsequent disinformation cover-up to deflect the outrage of the addicted.
All unintentionally, he had just given Burkitt the excuse for a cover-up that he might have needed.
Over it, she wore an overscaled white cotton cover-up that she had bought a week earlier.
Omega Team, a supersecret government office that handles such delicacies as political assassinations, interplanetary meddling, and the necessary cover-ups, great and small.
I were to call the other networks with that request, not only would they turn it down, but they would report on the air that CBA News 116 ARTHUR HAILEY had attempted to arrange a cover-up.
Some of the redoubts hid clues that had once fed wild theories of government cover-ups and alien visitations.
Air Force officers and civilian scientists thinking back about it in later years might very well conclude that the government had engineered a UFO cover-up.
The days of explanation, questions and answers, the tightrope walk across the politics of cleanup and cover-up had taken more out of her than the sustained chant-shape.
London was a backdrop for cries of murder muffled in the fog, its soft claxons, its hum of voices and occasional shouts, its Bovril and Wrigley's peeking through curtains of mist, all a cover-up for ill will and private acts of treachery.