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blackmail::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | extortion |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | extort |
| Derivation | blackmailer |
Examples of blackmail
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Sure they use emotional blackmail and say we are dying for you and you say this?
From the edition.cnn.com
They will just beg and blackmail the EU with its professed socialist principles.
From the economist.com
The Darden CEO tried to blackmail his employees to vote against Obama last year.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Emotional blackmail that your child would be the odd one out would be my guess ?
From the theargus.co.uk
When he shrugs off the blackmail, she finally goes to Paris, leaving him bereft.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Hotel rep Tommy Lawson threatens to blackmail Klein unless he provides an alibi.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Chaney didn't want to blackmail any slebs, nor indeed did he sell his pictures.
From the hecklerspray.com
We all know that buying season tickets is almost emotional blackmail for us fans.
From the expressandstar.com
When you wear your fears on your sleeve like we do, everyone can blackmail you.
From the battleland.blogs.time.com
- Exert pressure on someone through threats
- Extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
- Blackmail is the act of threatening to reveal substantially true information about a person to the public, a family member, or associates unless a demand is met. This information is usually of an embarrassing, socially damaging, and/or incriminating nature. ...
- Blackmail is a 1929 British thriller/drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard, and featuring Donald Calthrop, Sara Allgood and Charles Paton. ...
- Blackmail is a 1939 crime drama film starring Edward G. Robinson. The black-and-white film was directed by H.C. Potter.
- Blackmail is a 2005 Hindi language film by director Anil Devgan.
- Blackmail (stylised as blackmail) is the debut album by the artist of the same name. The album consisted of tracks that the band was able to record in a high-tech recording studio that was readily lended to them by a German producer legend named Stuart Bruce who was impressed with their demo- ...
- Blackmail is a German alternative rock band from Koblenz, Germany which was started briefly in 1993. Blackmail are singer Mathias Reetz, brothers Kurt Ebelhu00E4user (lead guitars) and Carlos Ebelhu00E4user (bass) and drummer Mario Matthias...
- Blackmail is the twelfth episode of the twentieth season of the television series Law & Order. It aired on NBC January 15, 2010.
