The Church would “deal with the families in as limited way as possible, and pay them hush money.”
He wants “more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.”
Plumbers, hush money, enemies list, smoking-gun tape, the whole nine yards.
The employee described it as a kind of hush money, making staffers disinclined to question dubious company practices.
He thought his hush money might fairly be considered his own secret.
Genslinger, after pocketing the Governor's hush money, had "sold him out."
But it isn't a loan, or hush money, or anything of the sort;—just hope money.
They would call it, and perhaps rightly, hush money to his conscience.
But it is notorious that peculations, hush money, and bribes from privates often swell his income to ten times that amount.
And that's why he wanted to kill off his Peruvians—they knew too much; probably were trying to bleed him for hush money.
noun phrase
Money paid to ensure silence: You can't give ''hush money'' to someone who's already talked (1709+)
