Crossword clues for briberies
briberies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bribery \Brib"er*y\, n.; pl. Briberies. [OE. brybery rascality, OF. briberie. See Bribe, n.]
Robbery; extortion. [Obs.]
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The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements.
Bribery oath, an oath taken by a person that he has not been bribed as to voting. [Eng.]
Wiktionary
n. (plural of bribery English)
Usage examples of "briberies".
Dubb didn't object to reasonable briberies but he was disgusted by Van Gelder's greedy gall.
They departed the city the way they had entered into it, through a series of sneakings and petty briberies.
The news was practically blathering, in the meantime, full of the details on the corruption investigation and revelations of the briberies.
He of the suspected kickbacks and briberies and ex-wives hush-moneyed to silence back in the good old days when domestic violence was still known as wife-beating.