bribable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"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."

Etymology tree English bribe Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English bribable From bribe + -able.

more bribable (comparative) most bribable (superlative)

unbribable

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What does bribable mean?

Susceptible to bribery.

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