dark secret
Frequency: 7.516.0 per million words
a secret about something bad, shameful, or mysterious
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Examples (10)
- Uncle Charlie hides a dark secret.
- She carried a dark secret with her to the grave.
- Every family has its own dark secrets, some more unsettling than others.
- The detective suspected there was a dark secret behind the old mansion's locked doors.
- He confessed his dark secret to his closest friend, seeking solace.
- Unveiling the company's dark secret led to its downfall.
- The protagonist's past was shrouded in a dark secret he desperately tried to forget.
- Do you think she's hiding some dark secret that explains her strange behavior?
- Their relationship ended when she discovered his dark secret about his previous life.
- The ancient town was rumored to harbor a dark secret within its forgotten catacombs.