Synonyms for sweep under the rug
sweep under the rug

Princeton's WordNet

1. sweep under the rugverb

   to conceal something in the hopes it won't be discovered by others

   "The president tried to sweep the embarrassing incident under the rug"

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1. The National Press Club:

   We call on all Americans to see this unsavory attempt to minimize the grisly bone-saw attack on Washington Post opinion writer Jamal Khashoggi for what it is -- an attempt to sweep under the rug a brutal state-sponsored murder, we call on people of conscience to reject this tournament. Do not attend. Do not watch it on television. Let it fail.

2. Lee Zeldin:

   While many in the media and the American public have been trying to bring down the President without evidence that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the election, there is a ton of actual evidence of real misconduct that those same people have been attempting to completely sweep under the rug.