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- adjective Alternative spelling of
bribable .
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Examples
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Then, after removing her body under the guise of 'helping out a friend who had too many' (an utterly believable alibi at Bouchercon) I would fly to a South American country where a bribeable yet skilled plastic surgeon would give me Janet's face.
December 2006 2006
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Kim Jong-il has already shown himself to be bribeable; last year he took $250 million in exchange for shutting down his nuclear weapons program.
Adam Hanft: Obama, North Korea, Gershwin: Why Clinton's 'Naive' Charge Is Even Stupider Today 2008
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Then, after removing her body under the guise of 'helping out a friend who had too many' (an utterly believable alibi at Bouchercon) I would fly to a South American country where a bribeable yet skilled plastic surgeon would give me Janet's face.
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Then, after removing her body under the guise of 'helping out a friend who had too many' (an utterly believable alibi at Bouchercon) I would fly to a South American country where a bribeable yet skilled plastic surgeon would give me Janet's face.
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Lambert Strether was concerned, to know the worst, and what he now seemed to know was not only that he was bribeable, but that he had been effectually bribed.
The Ambassadors 2003
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A machine is less fallible, less selfish, less bribeable, than a man.
The Long Way Home Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1955
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But it is not only Barrere and his colleagues who suppose the whole country bribeable -- the notion is common to the French in general; and vanity adding to the omnipotence of gold, whenever they speak of a battle lost, or a town taken, they conclude it impossible to have occurred but through the venal treachery of their officers.
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But it is not only Barrere and his colleagues who suppose the whole country bribeable -- the notion is common to the French in general; and vanity adding to the omnipotence of gold, whenever they speak of a battle lost, or a town taken, they conclude it impossible to have occurred but through the venal treachery of their officers.
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It's open to you to be grand and proud -- to wrap yourself in your majesty and ask if I suppose you bribeable.
The Awkward Age Henry James 1879
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It would be a beautiful plan if it succeeded, and it all came to the question of Sarah's being really bribeable.
The Ambassadors Henry James 1879
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