Synonyms:
bribery, graft
Meaning: the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
Usage examples
Bribery is useless!
This man had said, "A wicked, unbelieving Pope who has gained the pontifical chair by bribery is not Christ's Vicar.
Such negotiations, made with cunning supported by bribery, proved as usual more prompt and efficacious than any others.
He has two means of extricating me from this dilemma,--the one by a mysterious escape, managed through bribery; the other by buying off my judges with gold.
"It is not long since you told me that Mr. Harrington's very mild remark about extinguishing bribery and corruption was a piece of gross exaggeration," said Joe.
Marta, in a soft and implacable voice, and with such malicious glances that Mr. Gould's best friends advised him earnestly to attempt no bribery to get the matter dropped.