Примеры употребления для quietus
1. The court was informed by the parties, after the settlement, that they want to give a quietus to the litigation so that DPC could be restarted.
2. In the upshot, the 1'6' Swansea trial administered its quietus to the FWA, but Lewis continued to nurse his nationalist convictions.
3. It features C–list celebs like Jordan and Brigitte Nielsen, and nutters from the audience boasting about their sexual proclivities (‘I like to dress as Batman‘). The series is supposed to return in the autumn, though personally I think it should be given a merciful quietus.
4. It may have started out possessing a certain virility, but, like being between a rock and a hard place (which I claim to have quarried from the Apocrypha circa 1'80) its long since lost any cutting edge and deserves to be given its quietus.