baksheesh
Example Sentences
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He was, says David Damrosch, appalled by the hygiene, revolted by the sight of a kebab, too naive to pay the small baksheesh that could have eased every transaction.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2015
Financial leverage, or baksheesh, can work only up to a point with leaders struggling to control the bewilderingly diverse and ferocious energies unleashed by the Arab Spring.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2012
To put a stop to this, it has been necessary to offer special baksheesh in proportion to the size of the pieces.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 1955
Border guards were in on the baksheesh system entrenched in the culture.
From Newsweek
In common with the rest of the world I had heard of baksheesh, but until then I never understood its magic power.
From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by David Christie Murray
