Gave some money under the table

Usage examples of bribed.

You bribed the former enumerator with both golds and your daughter, and blame me for their failings and yours.

Hamorians are high on parchment, but their enumerators are not so well-trained, and can be bribed by those of Hamor.

For near ten years that man murdered, stole, bribed and tortured his way across this land and others.

We arranged for the truck loaded with contraband, driven by a Matabele -detainee we had bribed, to be waiting for him on the Tuti road.

So he tied the dog to a tree and beat him with a kiboko until he could see his ribs sticking out of the meat of his back, then he took back the gold coins and cattle with which he had bribed him, then he beat him again and finally, still squealing like a bull elephant in musk, Taka-Taka went away and never came back to these hills.

Publius Sulla and his dear friend Publius Autronius, were discovered to have bribed massively.

I vowed months ago in this House that if it came to my attention that a consular candidate had bribed, I would personally make sure he was charged and prosecuted.

This was not dishonorable, as the bribed man would indeed vote the proper way, but then feel no pangs about giving evidence at a prosecution because he had been recruited to do just that before he took the money.

Off to Numidia the Senate sent the praetor Lucius Cassius Longinus, under instructions to bring King Jugurtha in person to Rome, where he was to be made to provide Gaius Memmius with the names of all those he had bribed throughout the years.

YIBC families to be iemporarily moved into his jurisdiction, then bribed them to vote for him.

She bribed the peons to help her, she might have got the information out of them.

The senior prefect gave the wagon a cursory inspection and then threatened to delay them for an indefinite period until Kaspar bribed him.