Used with adjective complement

• keep: How Max Clifford kept things hushed HUSH is anything but hushed unless the gossip among its famous clientele must be kept hush-hush.

Modifying Another Word

• very: The FBI likes to keep our work on these cases very hush-hush.

Modifies a noun

• deal: The scientists were granted British work permits in a hush-hush deal brokered personally by President Blair.

• work: One of my earlier applications had been for men with reasonable educational records for hush-hush war work and this culminated in an odd way.