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blackmail English

Meaning blackmail meaning

What does blackmail mean?
Definitions in simple English

blackmail Noun

— Blackmail is an offence whereby someone extorts money or benefits in return of not [[revealing compromising or damaging information about them.

blackmail Verb

— If you are blackmailed, it means that someone is threatening you for money or benefits in return for not revealing damaging information of you. He was caught for blackmailing a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.

blackmail

— verb obtain through threats — verb (= pressure) exert pressure on someone through threats — noun extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information

Synonyms blackmail synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as blackmail?

blackmail English » English

extort extortion squeeze shake down blackjack threaten tension shakedown pressure extort money exact tightening tighten up tighten threat tense tauten take-up swindle straiten stiffen squeeze for sponging sanctify racketeering racketeer persistent demand intimidate hold up hijack fraud frap force extract exaction defraud constrain chantage blackmailing

Topics blackmail topics

What do people use blackmail to talk about?
Language and thought Want Influence

Threaten
Language and thought Want Influence

Compel

Conjugation blackmail conjugation

How do you conjugate blackmail?

blackmail · verb

Examples blackmail examples

How do I use blackmail in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This is blackmail.
Emotional blackmail is an immoral way of getting people to do what you want them to.
That's blackmail.
Do not blackmail me.
Is this blackmail?
Are you trying to blackmail me?

Movie subtitles

What a chance for blackmail.
This is blackmail, and I don't like blackmail.
I follow his instructions and drive ten people nearly crazy with threats and blackmail.
You handle the blackmail, and I see to your alibi.
If a woman throws herself out the window, or a fellow blows his brains out, like that bank director, blackmail letters aren't of much use.
Yes, but we figured that was blackmail.
Well, it's blackmail, lady, but it's worth it.
He is trying to blackmail this Senate as he tried to blackmail me.
If we yield to blackmail from this man, we'll become a laughing stock!
You call blackmail sense, Henry?
Blackmail, profiteering, corruption, illicit sex, procuration, and high treason.
Yes, your majesty, but first, could I interest you in some blackmail?
He was going to blackmail you, so you killed him, too.
The Police classify it under the very nasty name of blackmail.
You can blackmail, you can sell them to other people.
Then one of the crooks discovered it and tried to blackmail him. That was inevitable.
You were tried for blackmail, not perjury.
Are you trying to blackmail me?
Blackmail rackets?
You knew that he had you in a spot where he could blackmail you for life.
For blackmail.
But it really wasn't blackmail.
I mean, I didn't intend to blackmail him at all.
Miss Graham, I have here a warrant charging you with blackmail.
I didn't mean to blackmail him.
The sentence for blackmail, Miss Graham is two to 10 years in the penitentiary.
Only she may have tried to blackmail him.
So you intend to blackmail me, huh?
Blackmail.
I'm not trying to cheat or blackmail you.

News and current affairs

Look at how the Kremlin seeks to blackmail its neighbors by threatening their energy supplies.
High crude oil prices make it easier for Iran to build nuclear weapons and for Russia to use energy blackmail to threaten Europe.
Cameron would be more vulnerable than any leader in postwar British history to blackmail by his own party's dissidents and extremists, who see it as their historic mission to pull Britain out of the EU.
The North appears to be convinced that, with nuclear weapons, it can maintain complete diplomatic independence, and that China, fearing nuclear blackmail, will never abandon it.
American culture, I explained, judges extra-marital affairs very harshly, so a senior official caught in such a position could easily be subject to blackmail - something that a CIA director, of all people, must avoid.
My foreign interlocutors replied that, with the affair now exposed, the blackmail threat has been removed, so Petraeus should stay in office.
Indeed, it is widely believed that President Jiang and his confidante Zeng Qinghong obsessively gather politically embarrassing evidence against corrupt officials in order to blackmail these officials into subservience.
The rest is a question of economic blackmail.
Such blackmail might work for a suicide bomber.
No country, it is claimed, could dare to blackmail its partners anymore.
This does not mean that he would fire them, but rather that he would use them for purposes of diplomatic blackmail, raising threats to crisis levels.
Mini-powers and even terrorist groups can adopt mass blackmail as their policy.
Russia is as vulnerable as any country to such blackmail.
Otherwise Russia may look like a country whose main interest is in maintaining an option where all of America is vulnerable to nuclear blackmail.
If there is a response to such blackmail that could preserve Japan's dignity, the Kan government is unlikely to find it.
The other was that all NATO member states are free to blackmail their partners into supporting their own narrow goals.
Those who violate the rules consistently, and even announce that they will continue in their misbehavior, should not be allowed to blackmail the community and should ultimately consider leaving the club.
This will allow President Bush to avoid seeming to surrender to the threat of nuclear blackmail.
It uses this power to blackmail the government into introducing measures which discriminate between citizens of Italy's north and south.
Mao was wrong: political blackmail seems to be a more effective tool than the barrel of a gun.

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