Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who levies, or attempts to levy, blackmail.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
blackmails .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them
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Examples
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The blackmailer is the sex offender …. ooops, I mean a professional researcher.
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The titular blackmailer is saying gimme 75 grand, or get to experience Amber Death.
Archive 2007-07-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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I had never heard of Susan Ivy, suspected it was the alias my blackmailer used on his account.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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I had never heard of Susan Ivy, suspected it was the alias my blackmailer used on his account.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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However, it was soon apparent that the blackmailer was a rank amateur.
Betrayed Robert K. Tanenbaum 2010
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However, it was soon apparent that the blackmailer was a rank amateur.
Betrayed Robert K. Tanenbaum 2010
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How appropriate that his blackmailer was a TV producer.
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Why can't the majority simply call the blackmailer's bluff - let them filibuster until the cows come home and let the public outrage over their despicable, undemocratic behavior build up over the weeks.
Do or Die: The Six Senators Who Will Decide the Fate of Health Care Reform 2009
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Results for the blackmailer, that is, but misery for everyone else.
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Next thing you know, she's on "The Today Show" calling the blackmailer's bluff by tearfully going public with the pictures.
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