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Tubthumping vs Hushed - What's the difference?

tubthumping | hushed |

As verbs the difference between tubthumping and hushed

is that tubthumping is while hushed is (hush).

As adjectives the difference between tubthumping and hushed

is that tubthumping is brash, self-promoting while hushed is very quietly in soft tones.

As a noun tubthumping

is aggressive political or commercial promotion.

tubthumping

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (-)
  • Aggressive political or commercial promotion.
  • * 1914 , Harper, Charles G., The Kentish Coast , page 344
  • […] the general public, who imagine — poor fools — that all the fury and tubthumping at Westminster is honest emotion, […].
  • * 1939 , Railway Age , vol. 107, Oct.-Dec.
  • But there is usually more to Automobile Week than good-natured tubthumping for the new passenger car models.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Brash, self-promoting.
  • * 1994 , Stephen Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics , page 199
  • "Our pictures avoid deliberate, tubthumping propaganda but they exude the spirit of democracy."

    See also

    * rabblerousing * stemwinder

    hushed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very quietly. In soft tones.
  • So awe inspiring was the sight that we spoke only in hushed whispers.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hush)