Synonyms for cover-up
cov·er-up

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1. cover-upverb

   concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public

2. cover, cover upverb

   hide from view or knowledge

   "The President covered the fact that he bugged the offices in the White House"

   Synonyms:
   brood, get over, embrace, plow, wrap up, enshroud, compensate, breed, encompass, overlay, continue, treat, hatch, incubate, report, track, extend, cut across, cut through, deal, shroud, underwrite, overcompensate, address, spread over, hide, traverse, pass over, comprehend, handle, cover, cross, get across, cover up, insure

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1. List of paraphrases for "cover-up":

   concealment, camouflage, conspiracy, plot, masquerade, coverage, charade, obfuscation

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1. Tadeusz Bartos:

   Walesa is an opportunity for PiS to cover up economic issues, the party wants to have its vision recognized.

2. Chris Shelton:

   They will keep lying, lying and lying, they’ll cover up and double down.

3. Elijah Cummings:

   The Trump Administration has demonstrated repeatedly that it is willing to disregard the Constitution, defy decades of clear precedent, and invent frivolous new arguments to delay and obstruct Congress' oversight authority, and Attorney General( William) Barr and Secretary( Wilbur) Ross are complicit in this cover-up, both Secretary Ross and Attorney Attorney General -LRB- William -RRB- Barr are refusing to comply with duly authorized subpoenas from Congress.

4. Marc Short:

   If they're asserting the Fifth merely to cater to the President's whims or cover up for the President, that is not a proper use of the privilege, but we will have to do our best to divine whether they're properly invoking the Fifth or using it as a stratagem to keep information.

5. Zhanna Nemtsova:

   The Russian authorities do not want to investigate this case, these people (in Chechnya) receive cover up. We cannot proceed with the investigation if we receive such obstacles.