Crossword-Solution: BRIBES
We have 30 clues for the answer “BRIBES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ethical __ (marketers' "free gifts," e.g.) | 1 answer |
| Subjects of some political scandals | 1 answer |
| Rewards for corruption. | 1 answer |
| Pays under the table | 1 answer |
| Suborns | 1 answer |
| Payments made with a wink, maybe | 1 answer |
| Illegal sweeteners | 1 answer |
| Illegal incentives | 1 answer |
| Greases the palm | 1 answer |
| Gives hush money | 1 answer |
| Gifts that aren't really gifts | 1 answer |
| Engages in palm-greasing | 1 answer |
| Temptations for politicians | 1 answer |
| Corrupting gifts | 1 answer |
| Certain payoffs | 1 answer |
| Certain inducements. | 1 answer |
| Casually slips a $20 in the pocket of, maybe | 1 answer |
| Under-the-table payments | 1 answer |
| Buyoffs | 1 answer |
| Unethical payments | 1 answer |
| Unethical payoffs | 1 answer |
| Hush-money. | 2 answers |
| Sweeteners | 2 answers |
| Sub-rosa deals | 2 answers |
| Buys off | 2 answers |
| Pays off | 3 answers |
| HUSH money | 3 answers |
| Allurements. | 4 answers |
| Corrupts | 11 answers |
| Graft | 77 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BRIBES (5)
They told her that she must choose one of them for a sweetheart, and each began pressing his suit and offering her bribes; candy, and little pigs, and spotted calves.
What sort of mischief? For example, they are the thieves, burglars, cutpurses, footpads, robbers of temples, man-stealers of the community; or if they are able to speak they turn informers, and bear false witness, and take bribes.
The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements.
However, I procured the printed journal, and, sure enough! there, among the nays, was “Strongitharm.” It was not a week after that--and I was still suffering in mind and body--when the newspapers in the interest of the Rancocus and Great Western Consolidated accused me (not by name, but the same thing--you know how they do it) of being guilty of taking bribes.
There is a noise when Justice is being dragged in the way where those who devour bribes and give sentence with crooked judgements, take her.
Quotes with BRIBES (3)
Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?""Guns?" asked Jesper." Ships?" queried Inej." Bombs?" suggested Wylan. "Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered.
It’s not the drug that causes the junkie it’s the laws that causes the junkie because of course the drug laws means that he can’t go and get help because he is afraid of being arrested. He also can’t have a normal life because the war on drugs has made drugs so expensive and has made drug contracts unenforceable which means they can only be enforced through criminal violence. It becomes so profitable to sell drugs to addicts that the drug dealers have every incentive to get p…
Government as we now know it in the USA and other economically advanced countries is so manifestly horrifying, so corrupt, counterproductive, and outright vicious, that one might well wonder how it continues to enjoy so much popular legitimacy and to be perceived so widely as not only tolerable but indispensable. The answer, in overwhelming part, may be reduced to a two-part formula: bribes and bamboozlement (classically "bread and circuses"). Under the former rubric falls th…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 29 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).