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Definition of hole-and-corner in English: hole-and-corneradjective Attempting to avoid public notice; secret. a hole-and-corner wedding Example sentencesExamples - To talk to a foreigner is no longer a sign of political unreliability, and conversations do not have to be carried out in a hole-and-corner fashion, behind walls, with one nervous eye open for spies and eavesdroppers.
- Instead, they indulged in their usual hole-and-corner and devious manoeuvres.
- Unless the districts were considerable they were always more or less a kind of hole-and-corner government.
- These committees merely mean avoiding discussion and a hole-and-corner method of getting amendments through that might not be at all welcome to the country or to the House at large.
Synonyms secret, secretive, in secret, private, clandestine underhand, surreptitious, covert, furtive, devious, stealthy, sneaky, backstairs, closet, undercover, hugger-mugger, cloak-and-dagger, behind-the-scenes, under-the-table, under-the-counter Military black informal hush-hush
Definition of hole-and-corner in US English: hole-and-corneradjectiveˌhoʊl ən ˈkɔrnərˌhōl ən ˈkôrnər Attempting to avoid public notice; secret. a hole-and-corner wedding Example sentencesExamples - Unless the districts were considerable they were always more or less a kind of hole-and-corner government.
- To talk to a foreigner is no longer a sign of political unreliability, and conversations do not have to be carried out in a hole-and-corner fashion, behind walls, with one nervous eye open for spies and eavesdroppers.
- Instead, they indulged in their usual hole-and-corner and devious manoeuvres.
- These committees merely mean avoiding discussion and a hole-and-corner method of getting amendments through that might not be at all welcome to the country or to the House at large.
Synonyms secret, secretive, in secret, private, clandestine
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