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• n  a state of confusion
  he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance
• s  in utter disorder
• s  conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
• r  in secrecy
  they did it all hugger-mugger

• Paradise Postponed combines some of the social sweep of Brideshead with the hugger-mugger of Rumpole, the overweight, conniving and lovable Old Bailey barrister.
• Jenufa's stepmother, stealing hugger-mugger to the brook.
• This supernatural hugger-mugger does not take place in a comic book or a pulp magazine, but in a novel by one of the most gifted and influential Christian writers England has .

• disorderly
• higgledy-piggledy
• jumbled
• topsy-turvy
• clandestine
• cloak-and-dagger
• hole-and-corner
• hush-hush
• secret
• surreptitious
• undercover
• underground

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• Course Correction
  Where higher education sees trouble, a local initiative sees opportunity by Abby Mendelson They're hunched over laptops, all hugger-mugger, in Voluto Coffee, Penn Avenue, Garfield. It' s well past closing time, but they've paid for the space, the sandwiches and the joe that keeps on coming.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  June 26, 2013 - Pittsburgh City Paper