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Answer for the clue "Code broken by squealers ", 6 letters:
omerta

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Omertà or Omertà, The Code of Silence is a Quebec television series of 11 forty-five-minute episodes, created by Luc Dionne and aired from January to April 1996 on Radio-Canada . In France , the series aired on France 3 in 1998. A second season, titled ...

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n. a code of silence practiced by the Mafia; a refusal to give evidence to the police about criminal activities

Usage examples of omerta.

A Mafia don brought up to follow the steel-jacketed code of silence, omerta, is a harebrained blabbermouth next to a resident of Bowman's Ridge who's got something not to say.

Angelo Carmine looked to omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, to protect him.

Their cachet was that once upon a time they didn't talk, omertà they used to call it, the Law of Silence.