omertà
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The Guardian's media editor Jim Waterson wrote that his decision to speak out "has broken the omertà around the secret agreements between British television and the royal family over coverage of formal events".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2023
The selling point of the VH1 reality show “Mob Wives” was its authenticity: a group of Staten Island women with mobster husbands and a tough-girl penchant for chardonnay, omertà and a hot temper.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
And he once again went on and on about how he believes in omertà or, as he calls it, "loyalty."
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2018
“A much more proactive stance. Of the sort like sending your top prosecutor to investigate Chile. A stance where the pope, when he sees or suspects an institutional omertà, he reacts.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2018
They had said nothing about it, and my doctor, not being a friend of Antonio and therefore not bound by any ties of omertà, gave me an account of it.
From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Jones, Henry Festing
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