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Cocaine busts, tax cheats, and bribe-taking, born-again Christians: Welcome to the political scandals of 2014.

In a sense, she attempts to bribe the pastor, offering to make his church her home.

But at least in Moscow, a bribe or a good connection stand you a fighting chance to get what you need.

Asked if he did anything wrong, Cianci responded simply, “I was not guilty of conspiracy to take a bribe.”

“I did not have enough money to bribe the judge, so I decided to become a mercenary,” Mozhayev told a local reporter.

If you knew an honourable man was to be offered a bribe to do a dishonourable act, you would feel sure he would refuse it.

It throve because it came with the tempting bribe of Heaven in one hand, and the withering threat of Hell in the other.

Father is in a rage because I will not stay home; he offered me to-day the deed for two hundred acres as a bribe.

He tried to bribe us to let him go, and made us repeated offers until he reached a figure as high as ten thousand dollars.

He said he had sat the whole day at the Central Station watching passengers giving bribe to procure their tickets.

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On this page you'll find 91 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bribe, such as: blackmail, compensation, gift, graft, gratuity, and hush money.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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