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Definition of Outbribe
1. v. t. To surpass in bribing.
Definition of Outbribe
1. Verb. (transitive) To surpass in bribery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outbribe
1. to surpass in bribing [v -BRIBED, -BRIBING, -BRIBES] - See also: bribing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outbribe
Literary usage of Outbribe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Charles Bradlaugh: A Record of His Life and Work by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, John Mackinnon Robertson (1895)
"Have you no personal shame that you have broken your oath ? Or do the pride and
pomp of your ecclesiastical position outbribe your conscience ? ..."
2. Memoir and Letters of the Late Thomas Seddon, Artist by Thomas Seddon, John Pollard Seddon (1858)
"... for that before they had managed to outbribe the Latins—"And lo !" said he, "
now the men at Beit Jala, after costing us ..."
3. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions by Robert South (1853)
"... is ready to bribe the judge, and the judge is as ready to be bribed ; assuredly
there is no way so likely to carry the cause, as to outbribe him. ..."
4. The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G. C. B by John William Kaye (1856)
"... and hoped that the two \ Ambassadors would strive to outbribe one another,
were ; glad to welcome Malcolm back again to the Persian Court. ..."
5. Egypt by Stanley Lane-Poole (1881)
"All the wife can sue for is a separate maintenance, and even that is sufficiently
hard to obtain unless she is rich and can outbribe her husband with the ..."
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