Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.
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- verb Present participle of
blackmail .
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Examples
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He doesn’t have a record of being interested in blackmailing Democrats.
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Nah, less than half that; He doesn’t have a record of being interested in blackmailing Democrats.
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Not the greatest track recordif that was what she wanted to call blackmailing me into snooping around my friends dorm rooms.
Untouchable Kate Brian 2006
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Not the greatest track recordif that was what she wanted to call blackmailing me into snooping around my friends dorm rooms.
Untouchable Kate Brian 2006
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He had then hit on the idea of blackmailing Borla, and it was in pursuance of this scheme that I now found him.
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I was thinking what a kook Silverman is and what an odd way to 'force' votes, just the notion of blackmailing grandparents for votes ...
Latest Articles 2008
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The clang-clang-clang surrounding a plan to use overhead trolley wires on H Street and Benning Road continued Thursday with the District's transportation chief scolding the chairman of the region's planning commission and suggesting he was "blackmailing" local elected officials.
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However, Vázquez, a leftist who completed his five-year term in March, accused the tobacco giant of "blackmailing" pressure.
Uruguay bows to pressure over anti-smoking law amendments 2010
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For some years now, I have been 'blackmailing' others to write my posts for me.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Every single time I read that I see 'blackmailing', not blacksmithing.
"Valkyrie" (2009) Steven Barnes 2009
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