Bribery

(noun.) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage.

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• She would not betray her trust, I suppose, without bribery and corruption, for she really did know where her friend was to be found. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• He made bribery a state method almost more important than warfare. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A man cannot serve two masters, and as the question of whose side you would embrace was simply one of bribery, I took advantage of your baseness. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The election of Charles was secured, it is to be noted, by a vast amount of bribery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But there is a pale shade of bribery which is sometimes called prosperity. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Somebody was saying, said the Rector, laughingly, that East Retford was nothing to Middlemarch, for bribery. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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