Meanings
comparative more bribable · superlative most bribable
- Susceptible to bribery.
1 more example
He liked always, where Lambert Strether was concerned, to know the worst, and what he now seemed to know was not only that he was bribable, but that he had been effectually bribed. The only difficulty was that he couldn't quite have said with what. It was as if he had sold himself, but hadn't somehow got the cash.
1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecapable of being corrupted
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian подкупен
- подкупен (podkupen)susceptible to bribery
Catalan subornable
- subornablesusceptible to bribery
German bestechlich, käuflich
- bestechlichsusceptible to bribery
- käuflichsusceptible to bribery
Spanish sobornable
- sobornablesusceptible to bribery
Swedish mutbar
- mutbarsusceptible to bribery
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