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Underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful
Answer for the clue "Underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful ", 11 letters:
subornation
Word definitions for subornation in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from Latin subornationem (nominative subornatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of subornare "to provide, furnish; instigate"(see suborn ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful perjured testimony that someone was persuaded to give
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subornation \Sub`or*na"tion\, n. [F. subornation.] (Law) The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury. --Blackstone. The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of suborning 2 The procuring of someone to do a criminal act, especially to commit perjury
Usage examples of subornation.
He charged malfeasance, he charged treason, murder, blackmail, piracy, simony, forgery, kidnapping, barratry, attempted rape, mental cruelty, indecent exposure, and subornation of perjury.
But he so much scorned their charity and publically defied the uttermost of their cruelty, he wisely prevented their policies, though he could not suppress their envies, yet so well he demeaned himself in this business, as all the company did see his innocency, and his adversaries' malice, and those suborned to accuse him accused his accusers of subornation.
Perjury, oppression, subornation, fraud, pandarism, and the like infirmities, were among the most excusable arts they had to mention.
Perjury, oppression, subornation, fraud, pandarism, and the like 'infirmities', were amongst the most excusable arts they had to mention, and for these I gave, as it was reasonable, great allowance.
I shall not forget my delight when Jesse Blocher, who had been trailing Charles Foster Dodge through the South (when the latter was wanted as the chief witness against Abe Hummel on the charge of subornation of perjury of which he was finally convicted), told me how he instantly located his man, without disclosing his own identity, by unostentatiously leaving a note addressed to Dodge in a bright-red envelope upon the office counter of the Hotel St.
He charged malfeasance, he charged treason, murder, blackmail, piracy, simony, forgery, kidnapping, barratry, attempted rape, mental cruelty, indecent exposure, and subornation of perjury.