suborn 的定义
- to bribe or induce unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime The drug cartel suborned the local police department to turn a blind eye to their trafficking.
- Law. to induce to give false testimony.to obtain from a witness.
suborn 近义词
incite to commit crime
更多suborn例句
- This time, the heirs of the Confederacy have learned that is more effective to suborn the government than secede.
- By rejecting this last attempt to suborn a dereliction of duty, Henry saved my reputation, my honor, my life, really.
- If Blondel tampered with any one, he would naturally, if he knew aught of the house, suborn Claude or Anne.
- Was there no postman or postmaster whom he could suborn to intercept them for him?
- Meanwhile you suborn 'unwarranted belief' by making belief a matter of reward and penalty.
- But the audacious Lauzun found means to suborn a well-meaning simpleton of a priest, who married them secretly the very same day.
- For this purpose, he endeavoured to suborn a poet who lived under his patronage.