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Conspiracy of silence   /kənspˈɪrəsi əv sˈaɪləns/   Listen
Conspiracy of silence

noun
1.
A conspiracy not to talk about some situation or event.






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"Conspiracy of silence" Quotes from Famous Books



... is I still stick to my opinion," I said. "Depend upon it Kouaga is at the bottom of this conspiracy of silence." ...
— The Great White Queen - A Tale of Treasure and Treason • William Le Queux

... the most instructive part of that whole sad history, and yet, for a hundred different reasons, it is the part which from the beginning has been most obscured by a miscellaneous conspiracy of silence. Some day perhaps it will be possible to get a true life written of Le Pelletier de Saint-Fargeau, the millionaire Mephistopheles of Philippe Egalite. The hand that struck him to death in the very centre of the scene ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert

... mission, the doctor was summoned to her side, but found a very real mission waiting for him when he got there. She had written a note for Frank the moment that he had left the house, and he found both it and a conspiracy of silence waiting for him when he returned in the late afternoon. The note was upon the hall-table, and he eagerly tore ...
— A Duet • A. Conan Doyle



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