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词汇 suborn
释义 suborn
verb[ T ]
 law specialistuk /səˈbɔːn/ us /səˈbɔːrn/
to persuade someone, for example by offering them money, to commit an illegal act, especially to tell lies in a court of law: 教唆;买通,收买
He is a liar, and he suborned perjury from her early on in this investigation.他是个骗子,在这次调查的早期就唆使她作伪证。
Such agreements could undermine the justice system by providing an incentive to suppress evidence, or even to suborn witnesses. 这种协议可能会破坏司法系统,因为它鼓励压制证据甚至收买证人。
He may also have suborned perjury by urging another girlfriend to swear falsely that they were not lovers.
The massive drug profits are used to finance operations and suborn officials.
He apparently did try unsuccessfully to induce David's mentor to fire him, but that is a far cry from suborning perjury.
He used his police connections and enormous sums of cash to suborn law enforcement all along the smuggling routes.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Lies, lying & hypocrisy
a pack of liesidiom
artifice
bad faith
black is whiteidiom
cakeism
falsehood
falsification
feed someone a lineidiom
fib
fiction
lie
mythologically
mythologize
perjure
perjury
someone can talk!idiom
stretch the truthidiom
weasel words
white lie
whopper

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Fraud & corruption

Examples of suborn


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It must remain open to the weak uses of representation, or designers will resolutely suborn it to such.
The cost of sustaining such a public good and the temptation to suborn it for personal interests will destroy it.
Lacking that, social pressures against free-riding, corruption, patron-clientage and suborning the state's rules are weak.
People must see institutions as generally reliable and fair mechanisms for protecting their personal integrity and achieving collective goals, or they will ignore, evade or suborn them.
They have had to stand by and watch their subjects being suborned, and the outcome of the arbitration itself being gravely prejudiced in advance.
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This booklet tells you about the great hostile spy machine that tries to suborn our citizens and turn them into traitors.
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I do not want to be suborned into the negative argument as to which alleged atrocity is true.
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When they are wealthy, they can buy newspapers and suborn public opinion by hired journalists, and they can buy brains for their service.
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What will we do about those leaders who choose to suborn the people whom they are meant to lead?
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I do not think there is much chance of members of the medical profession being bribed or suborned in this matter.
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The needs of tenants will be suborned to the needs of the registered social landlord's finances and other priorities.
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But there are people in this world whose lot in life is very miserable because they are suborned and subjected to terrible treatment.
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I have seen them attempt to suborn the independence of that country.
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Professional judgments must not be suborned or second-guessed by voluntary organisations, individuals or politicians.
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Of course, it is quite clear that, in an ordinary case, there would be a presumption that only a guilty man would suborn evidence.
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