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Significados de hugger-mugger en inglés

Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods.

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In utter disorder.

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Examples for "disorderly"
Examples for "disorderly"
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A disorderly default would result in substantially higher losses for the system.
Reuters
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Photo: RNZ A police spokesperson said the arrests were for disorderly behaviour.
Radio NZ
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The discordant vocalising of the drunk and disorderly in the next cell.
A Damsel in Distress
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He pleaded guilty to a reduced disorderly conduct charge in that case.
Reuters
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One person was arrested at Auckland Domain yesterday morning for disorderly behaviour.
Radio NZ
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However, the rise of Earl Sliney as the possible shooter jumbled things.
Raging Heat
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We'll camp here.' He indicated the jumbled rocks by the river bank.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
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The bones were jumbled together, the result of continual tremors and eruptions.
Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
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She was feeling so many emotions jumbled together: happiness, surprise, curiosity, confusion.
Sweet Little Lies
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Routes that have ledges or jumbled features, or wander, are good candidates.
Climbing Magazine
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Yes, sir, the same day; and her things are lying about higgledy-piggledy.
The Gadfly
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They set off in a higgledy-piggledy fashion, each striking out for himself.
Maurice Guest
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They were pretty close, advancing higgledy-piggledy across the fields and firing.
The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, ...
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They are not so much arranged about one another as superposed and higgledy-piggledy.
First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life
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Fatima Shah, the butcher's wife, remembers closing the rose-print curtains of her higgledy-piggledy house.
The Guardian
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In half an hour he had caught up with the topsy-turvy caravan.
Pinocchio in Africa
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The camel is a topsy-turvy ship and the ostrich a topsy-turvy bird.
Topsy-Turvy Land: Arabia Pictured for Children
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Much had been made of the topsy-turvy nature of the much-hyped contest.
Radio NZ
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For awhile it seemed to me that the whole world was topsy-turvy.
The Story of Dago
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But all shame is extinct in France, and everything is turned topsy-turvy.
Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 0...

Mumbo jumbo.

Uso de hugger-mugger en inglés
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We have to eat all hugger-mugger with the clerks and carpenters.
Sovereign
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I don't want to hear any more about corporate hugger-mugger.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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The various departments are said to be in a state of "hugger-mugger."
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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As they thought, hid in hugger-mugger, each accusing the other of being a racist.
Kalooki Nights
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Nor is the New Yorker a hugger-mugger with his money.
North America — Volume 1
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Well, I thought it would be all of a hugger-mugger.
Love Eternal
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Between now and then there will be plenty of hugger-mugger.
The Irish Times
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Muddle flies before it, and hugger-mugger becomes a thing unknown.
Character
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Its ordinary hugger-mugger had been cleared away-pushedback into corners and out of sight.
The Mating of Lydia
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There was no hugger-mugger escape of travel-clad bride and bridegroom.
Jaffery
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Naturally, I refused, not wanting to seem to be too hugger-mugger with a famous entrepreneur.
The Irish Times
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Let alone his meals being all hugger-mugger and comfortless.
Mary Barton
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What was it like saying goodbye to crew mates he'd lived hugger-mugger with for so long?
The Guardian
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Why should she think us a hugger-mugger family?
What Timmy Did
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It is all hugger-mugger, with miss a-leaving.
Foul Play
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The trial was all mystery, hugger-mugger, horror.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with ...
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