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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bribe |
| Synonyms: | bribery, graft, payoff |
| Main Entry: | corruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty |
| Synonyms: | breach of trust, bribery, bribing, crime, crookedness, demoralization, exploitation, extortion, fiddling, fraud, fraudulency, graft, jobbery, malfeasance, misrepresentation, nepotism, on the take, payoff, payola, profiteering, racket, shadiness, shady deal, shuffle, skimming, squeeze*, unscrupulousness, venality |
| Antonyms: | decency, honesty, honor, truthfulness, wholesomeness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blackmail; cheating |
| Synonyms: | arm, badger, bite, coercion, compulsion, demand, exaction, force, fraud, oppression, payoff, payola, pressure, protection, racket, rapacity, shake, shakedown, squeeze, stealing, swindle, theft |
| Main Entry: | graft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payoff for fraud |
| Synonyms: | bribe, corruption, gain, hat*, hush money, juice*, money, money under the table, pay, payola, peculation, shake*, share, skimming, squeeze*, thievery |
| Notes: | a graft is one thing attached to another by insertion or implantation so it becomes part of it; a splice is the joining of two things end-to-end to make a new whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | kickback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bribe |
| Synonyms: | cut, gift, graft, money under the table, oil, payment, payoff, payola, percentage, recompense, reward, share |
| Main Entry: | hush money |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bribe |
| Synonyms: | blackmail, extortion, graft, kickback, payola |
| Main Entry: | pork barrel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political patronage |
| Synonyms: | back scratching, favors of office, logrolling, melon, patronage, payola, perks, perquisite, plum, political favor, pork, public crib, public till, public trough, spoils of office, taxpayer funds |
| Main Entry: | villainousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruption |
| Synonyms: | bestiality, breach of trust, bribery, bribing, crime, crookedness, demoralization, depravity, exploitation, extortion, fiddling, flagitiousness, fraud*, fraudulency, graft, immorality, jobbery, malfeasance, misrepresentation, nepotism, on the take, payoff, payola, perversion, profiteering, racket, shadiness, shady deal, shuffle, skimming, squeeze*, turpitude, unscrupulousness, venality, vice, villainy, wickedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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