Bribable (Adjective)
Meaning
Capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The local government was notoriously corrupt, with bribable officials at every level taking payoffs to ignore serious environmental and health concerns.
- She worried that her daughter would fall in with a bad crowd at college, befriending students who were materialistic and easily bribable by anyone who promised them a wealthy lifestyle.
- He refused to hire any former politician, assuming that most were too deeply entrenched in a culture of money and too easily bribable to ever serve the greater good.
- Bribable businessmen eager for new connections lavished free champagne on minor bureaucrats and self-promoted party donors, desperate for opportunities in new high-profile real-estate ventures.
- Public prosecutors admitted openly to giving unusually generous deals to senior-level officers willing to confess who openly maintained bribe arrangements were corrupt bribable when business entities deliberately enriched wealthy suspects above everybody.