Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being bribed; liable to be bribed: as, a bribable class of electors.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being bribed.

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  • adjective Susceptible to bribery.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective capable of being corrupted

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Examples

  • * Reducing even further the salaries of civil servants means hiring less qualified applicants which would then lower the quality of services and making government officials more easily bribable by businesses.

    Matthew Yglesias » Hayek on Health Care 2010

  • But it is also the closest thing to an ideal government provided you have the luxury of an integrity-filled, un-bribable, benevolent dictator.

    Creativity 2010

  • But it is also the closest thing to an ideal government provided you have the luxury of an integrity-filled, un-bribable, benevolent dictator.

    8 posts from June 2009 2009

  • But it is also the closest thing to an ideal government provided you have the luxury of an integrity-filled, un-bribable, benevolent dictator.

    threeway anyone? 2009

  • But it is also the closest thing to an ideal government provided you have the luxury of an integrity-filled, un-bribable, benevolent dictator.

    Politics 2010

  • But it is also the closest thing to an ideal government provided you have the luxury of an integrity-filled, un-bribable, benevolent dictator.

    Transparency 2010

  • A bribable executioner, now that I think about it . . .

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • A bribable executioner, now that I think about it . . .

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • But it is also the closest thing to an ideal government provided you have the luxury of an integrity-filled, un-bribable, benevolent dictator.

    Integrity 2010

  • But it is also the closest thing to an ideal government provided you have the luxury of an integrity-filled, un-bribable, benevolent dictator.

    threeway anyone? 2009

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