Blackmail is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BLACKMAIL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to extort money from a person by threats
• demand money from (someone) in return for not revealing compromising information about them
• force (someone) to do something by using threats or manipulating their feelings
• To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
• exert pressure on someone through threats
• obtain through threats
• (attempt to) obtain money by blackmail
NOUN:
• the action, treated as a criminal offence, of demanding money from someone in return for not revealing compromising information which one has about them
• money demanded by a person or group engaged in blackmail
• act of attempting to extort money by threats
• A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.
• Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
• Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to \"white rent\", which paid in silver.
• extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
• the use of threats or the manipulation of someone's feelings to force them to do something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a tribute anciently exacted on the Scottish border by plundering chiefs in exchange for immunity from pillage

Words related to BLACKMAIL

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Words that contain BLACKMAIL

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How to use BLACKMAIL in a sentence

• With these letters in his possession Hill intended to blackmail Sir Horace, or Mrs.
• His idea was to remove them from the secret drawer after the excitement about the murder died down, and then blackmail Mrs.
• Yet, when I come on an errand of mercy, you have the impudence to charge me with blackmail.
• Gathered in small bands with such arms as they could secure, they sustained themselves by highway robbery and the levying of black-mail from the country folk.
• Some survivor of those days might turn up and try blackmail.
• Maitland probably tries to blackmail Aylmore or threatens to let folk know that the flourishing Mr.
• A sinister mystery of love, death and blackmail runs, a turbid undercurrent, through the story.
• This gentleman, who collected fine editions and was a patron of literature, paid blackmail to a heavy-jowled, black-browed boss of a municipal machine.
• I will pay double then to catch them so that they cannot blackmail me again.
• But there come reports of legislative and administrative corruption, of organised public blackmail, that do seem to carry out my thesis.
• Always she would have the dreadful secret to hold over them, and so they would live under the shadow of possible blackmail.
• I looked upon drink as a sort of blackmail I paid to the devil so that he might let me be a good priest in everything else.
• They are so strongly entrenched that they have put contractors out of business because they would not submit to blackmail.
• Innocent people, unless they were abject fools, did not pay blackmail.
• Each lord of a castle levied systematic blackmail on the neighbouring parishes.
• There was talk of blackmail and hints of an interesting exposure.
• Perhaps a thought of blackmail occurred to him as a useful possibility in helping him in his designs on Mademoiselle Stangerson.
• Even when he had shut his victim up in Newgate, he did not leave him so long as there was a chance of blackmail.
• When he has his victim upon his back, he seizes the opportunity to levy blackmail, for the pool is a quicksand and he suddenly affects great fear.
• The motive may be to extort blackmail, revenge, or mere delusion.
• He told you to take the name of Wyoming Ed, so that he might blackmail the father of Wyoming Ed.
• And they could still gain their ends without blackmail.
• Besides, the heavier the sentence threatened, if there be an alternative fine, the more potent implement it furnishes for blackmail in the hands of corrupt police officials.
• I of course realise that I am paying blackmail, and do so rather than be annoyed and tormented by you.
• He was sharp enough not to say so, for he knew that would be pure blackmail.
• When police regulation takes the place of law enforcement a species of municipal blackmail inevitably becomes intrenched.
• The orators of the movement never for a moment dreamed of levying war on Mr Gladstone, but they were determined to levy blackmail.
• To levy blackmail on the community, under threats of civil war, seems to him a more expeditious way of gaining his object.

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