blackmail
IPA: bɫˈækmeɪɫ
noun
- The extortion of money or favours by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
- (archaic) A form of protection money (or corn, cattle, etc.) anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to the allies of robbers in order to be spared from pillage.
- (England law, historical) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.
- Compromising material that can be used to extort someone, dirt.
verb
- (transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
- (Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.
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Examples of "blackmail" in Sentences
- I blackmailed my dad for cash.
- The photos of the rape are then used as blackmail.
- It's a way to blackmail the insurance company of the owner.
- Also the reasoning of the Ulysses blackmail should be corrected.
- Blackmail, who had worked with the band previously in the 1980s.
- Apparently he was willing to blackmail the subjects of his jibes.
- The blackmail element in this book is pretty integral to the plot.
- The time of political blackmails and briberies is in the past, and gone.
- Kenny takes a picture of it, and the boys then blackmail the aliens with it.
- Archie tosses Lon the information about the blackmail and the subscriptions.
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