(n.) A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust.
(n.) That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
(v. t.) To rob or steal.
(v. t.) To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to.
(v. t.) To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.
(v. i.) To commit robbery or theft.
(v. i.) To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Berlusconi aide, Valter Lavitola, is also on trial for being the alleged intermediary in the bribe.
(2) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
(3) Also in June, a former welfare minister, Shlomo Benizri , was jailed for four years for taking bribes while in office.
(4) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(5) That’s why many parents in North Korea have started bribing government officers even before their kids graduate high school.
(6) Nonetheless, Blatter was investigated by Swiss police over his attempts in secret to repay more than £1m worth of bribes pocketed by football officials.
(7) The Sunday Mirror went to court seeking an injunction to order the NoW to stop trying to bribe its staff.
(8) • Moldova's president offered a $10m (£6.4m) bribe to a political rival in a desperate bid to keep his defeated communist government in power , according to a secret US diplomatic cable.
(9) Most immediately in Zurich is the likely publication of a settlement made in court in the Swiss canton of Zug, in connection with alleged bribes paid to senior Fifa officials in the late 1990s by the marketing company ISL.
(10) Mohamed Bin Hammam, the disgraced former president of the Asian Football Confederation, has been linked to paying a string of bribes during the Qatari’s failed bid to become Fifa president, with some linking his activities to the concurrent Qatar 2022 bid.
(11) It has previously been reported that Brazilian prosecutors believe Maluf took bribes and construction kickbacks amounting to US$344m during his mayoralty between 1993 and 1996.
(12) He was responsible for securing vital uranium-enrichment technology, photographing centrifuge blueprints that a German executive had been bribed into temporarily "mislaying" in his kitchen.
(13) The rush to make a new offer on devolution, promised within hours of publication of the shock poll result on Sunday, triggered accusations of panic and bogus bribes.
(14) In 2010, FA chairman Lord Triesman was forced to resign after a Mail on Sunday sting operation captured him speculating about referees being bribed and, in 2004, FA chief executive Mark Palios quit after trying to cover up an affair with secretary Faria Alam.
(15) It was the same in the last game: women were there to nag you, or be bribed – whether with fancy dinners or cold, hard cash – into having sex with you.
(16) The majority of the US indictment was devoted to outlining complex schemes in which executives from Conmebol and Concacaf allegedly took bribes on TV and marketing contracts over decades amounting to $150m.
(17) Those borders remain hotbeds of corruption and abuse: traders are regularly harassed, sexually abused, or forced to pay bribes.
(18) Rolls-Royce was first dragged into the scandal in February after a former Petrobras executive alleged the group paid him and others bribes in exchange for contracts with the oil company.
(19) On Monday the company announced the settlement with the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), after accepting that its defence and civil aerospace divisions had paid bribes and corrupted officials and politicians around the world.
(20) The couple were detained last July soon after Chinese authorities accused GSK – one of Humphrey's clients – of bribing doctors and hospital administrators to sell its products.
Dishonesty
Definition:
(n.) Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame.
(n.) Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
(n.) Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act.
(n.) Lewdness; unchastity.
Example Sentences:
(1) In its statement, the league did not give details of the judgment, but made it clear that in its opinion, dishonesty by Cellino had been found.
(2) Sophisticated dishonesty can escape detection by peer review and replication.
(3) The Tory call last week for higher wages was breathtaking dishonesty, echoing the TUC’s “Britain Needs a Pay Rise” campaign.
(4) Before Laspo, cases of false imprisonment were always funded by legal aid and restricting funding only to dishonesty cases was never the stated intention of parliament.
(5) But Harvey said that, if the written verdict could be interpreted as finding Cellino guilty of dishonesty, then there was a chance he could still be barred from owning the club.
(6) He was a reactionary only in reacting against intellectual dishonesty and imposture.
(7) And in passing we should note Campbell's professional dishonesty in denying at the time that there was a breakdown between the prime minister and his chancellor and later, while Brown was in power, publishing extracts that misrepresented, by omission, the foul relationship between them.
(8) Cellino’s position as Leeds owner could therefore be in jeopardy as the Football League’s owners’ and directors’ test disqualifies individuals who “have unspent convictions for offences of dishonesty”.
(9) The shadow chancellor said it "will come down to honesty versus dishonesty", as parties battle for votes ahead of the general election, which is expected to take place on 6 May.
(10) Johnson is the master-builder of that image, deflecting every lie, every gaffe, dishonesty and U-turn with some self-deprecating metaphor: calling his feigned indecision “veering all over the place like a shopping trolley” was worth a world of worthy platitudes.
(11) A reference in an internal Leigh Day email to paying “bribes” was not a question of promoting dishonesty, Robertson said, but merely an expression of frustration by Malik at having to pay the Iraqi claimants for employment leave so that they could travel outside Iraq to record their legal statements.
(12) Because of the problems of dishonesty, fraud, and conflict of interest, academic medical institutions must establish codes of conduct to govern professional life.
(13) On VW’s Facebook page and on other online forums that cater to Volkswagen fans, there have been numerous comments posted by people angry about the automaker’s dishonesty.
(14) Gashi, who has been convicted for dishonesty, admitted lying in a police statement about the kidnap case.
(15) I suggest to him that he is paying the price not just for specific broken promises but for a deeper intellectual dishonesty at the heart of that broadcast.
(16) From the right, conservatives want to tar Democrats with a double brush of dishonesty, hoping it will boost a double election effect.
(17) And there is not a parliament in the world that would impose a national income tax on only some of the country but not on all of the country.” Brown accused David Cameron of dishonesty in failing to explain his plans in clear terms to the people of Scotland during the referendum campaign.
(18) Increasing coauthorship responsibility, conscientious senior investigator supervision, and institutional cooperation will provide the framework to discourage dishonesty in science and encourage proper educational development of both young and established investigators in a milieu of scientific integrity.
(19) "There is a widespread dishonesty about standards in English schools and low aspiration," he claims, before complaining that there is "a common view that only a small fraction of the population … should be given a reasonably advanced mathematical and scientific education" while many other pupils leave school with little more than basic numeracy.
(20) However much of a good thing the EU might be – and I would like to think it is a huge benefit – it is alarming that there has been so much behind-the-scenes manipulation and dishonesty in representing those benefits to the British electorate.