jobbery

[job-uh-ree] / ˈdʒɒb ə ri /

NOUN

corruption

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bribery crime exploitation extortion fraud graft malfeasance nepotism

STRONG

crookedness demoralization misrepresentation payoff payola racket shadiness shuffle skimming squeeze unscrupulousness venality

WEAK

breach of trust bribing fiddling fraudulency on the take profiteering shady deal

Antonyms

WEAK

cleanliness cleanness decency goodness honesty honor kindness pureness purification purity sterility truthfulness wholesomeness

NOUN

villainousness

Synonyms

STRONG

bestiality bribery crime crookedness demoralization depravity exploitation extortion fraud graft immorality malfeasance misrepresentation nepotism payoff payola perversion racket shadiness shuffle skimming squeeze turpitude unscrupulousness venality vice villainy wickedness

WEAK

breach of trust bribing fiddling flagitiousness fraudulency on the take profiteering shady deal

Antonyms

STRONG

justice virtue

Example Sentences

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If you were here I think I could, and would if I could, do a little jobbery on your account.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2019

Research published in 2011 by Victor Lapuente and Carl Dahlstrom of the University of Gothenburg, and Jan Teorell, of Lund University, looked at which features of a civil service cut jobbery.

From Economist • Mar. 10, 2016

A U. S. District Attorney in Manhattan, preparing to run as a Republican against Governor Roosevelt, disclosed all manner of jobbery among Tammany judges.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Securities bill was designed to clean up the evils of stock jobbery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Road-making policy fluctuated between the Scylla of local neglect and the Charybdis of centralized jobbery.

From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Skelton, Oscar Douglas

jobbery

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