omertà
Americannoun
noun
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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 omertà was enabled by the traditions of a city that arms public figures with a battalion of aides, who manage nearly all of their professional and personal lives.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
Who broke the Cosa Nostra oath of omertà?
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2022
“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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