omertà
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Something darker held the omertà in place privately, among the players themselves.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
Who broke the Cosa Nostra oath of omertà?
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2022
It’s not exactly the same thing, of course, but there is a faint echo of the omertà out in the Icelandic pastures.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2020
“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
Just as omertà makes things difficult for the Sicilian police, so this p. 169love of acting makes things difficult for the foreign traveller.
From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones
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