Bribe Synonyms

brīb
Money, property, or a favor given, offered, or promised to a person or accepted by a person in a position of trust as an inducement to dishonest behavior
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. payoff
  2. graft
  3. payola
  4. boodle
  5. fee
  6. reward
  7. hush-money
  8. fix
  9. sop
  10. lure
  11. gift
  12. remuneration
  13. corrupt money
  14. tribute
  15. perquisite
  16. bait
  17. inducement
  18. tip
  19. blackmail
  20. price
  21. gratuity
  22. lagniappe
  23. protection
  24. kickback
  25. plugola
To give, offer, or promise a bribe to
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. buy
  2. corrupt
  3. pay off
  4. entice
  5. fix
  6. tempt
  7. suborn
  8. blackmail
  9. get-at
  10. get to
  11. influence by a gift
  12. pervert
  13. reward
  14. tip
  15. give a bribe
  16. give a sop to
  17. give a price to
  18. allurement
  19. approach
  20. bait
  21. lure
  22. bonus
  23. influence
  24. induce
  25. seduce with money
  26. douceur
  27. buy-off
  28. extort
  29. butter
  30. grease one's palm
  31. fee
  32. cross one's palm
  33. salve
  34. gift
  35. soap
  36. graft
  37. square
  38. grease
  39. take-care-of
  40. hire
  41. kickback
  42. meed
  43. offer
  44. oil
  45. payola
  46. sop
  47. steal
  48. grease one's palms

Words Related to Bribe

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. crimes
  2. money
  3. persuasion
  4. backhander
  5. dupe

Bribe Sentence Examples

  • The world could not bribe him.

  • I thought we could try to bribe Skippy with them.

  • Even worse - she'd lost the bribe she brought for the Oceanan messenger.

  • These payments, the cynics would argue, bribe the poor to back the system.

  • The new prince, who was compelled to purchase his elevation with a heavy bribe, proceeded to the country which he was selected to govern, and of the language of which he was in nearly every case totally ignorant, accompanied by a horde of needy hangers-on; he and his acolytes counted on recouping themselves in as short a time as possible for their initial outlay and in laying by a sufficiency to live on after the termination of the prince's brief authority.

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