blackmailer
勒索者,敲诈者,勒索人,勒索犯
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Definitions
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- : any payment extorted by intimidation, as by threats of injurious revelations or accusations.
- : the extortion of such payment: He confessed rather than suffer the dishonor of blackmail.
- : a tribute formerly exacted in the north of England and in Scotland by freebooting chiefs for protection from pillage.
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- : to extort money from by the use of threats.
- : to force or coerce into a particular action, statement, etc.: The strikers claimed they were blackmailed into signing the new contract.
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Examples
Be kind and fierce and don’t bend an inch to this emotional blackmail.
Now crypto is at the center of a wide swath of illegal schemes, including blackmail scams, Covid-19 vaccine counterfeits, money laundering operations, and illicit sales on the darknet.
A few days later, Pearson exposed the blackmail of Bridges and Welker.
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell issued a statement in early April describing the corporate pushback on voting measures as “economic blackmail” that would result in “serious consequences.”
Ransomeware is highly effective when coupled with the exfiltration of secrets to add blackmail pressure for companies and institutions to pay up.
Plus, his known drug dealings certainly made him vulnerable to blackmail.
Americans are giving in to North Korean blackmail—and it will only get worse.
Back in England, Hitchcock made the transition from silents to sound with Blackmail, Britain's first talkie.
VanDyke confirmed the attack on his website, writing that SEA had emailed him a blackmail threat.
The more accomplished students took classes in safe-cracking, burglary, blackmail, and confidence games.
If this stinking quartet takes it into its head to levy annual blackmail, where is the money coming from?
Bois l'Hery's horses were unsound, Schwalbach's gallery was a swindle, Moessard's articles a recognised blackmail.
The only possible scandal lies in the fact that Mrs. Withers paid blackmail for years.
He attempted to blackmail my father, as he had already done so many times, but his scheme was frustrated.