Sentence examples for the blackmail from inspiring English sources

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the blackmail

verb

To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.

  • He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.

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The blackmail works.

"The days of the Blackmail are over.

Clarke denies the blackmail allegation.

The government in Shuangfeng has gone on the offensive against the blackmail scourge.

From there, it was prosecutors who chose to open the blackmail investigation.

The police themselves, she adds, sometimes join in the blackmail and take their cut.

The group cheered to the passing cars, waving signs that read, "Stop the Blackmail!

(It's worth recalling the blackmail photos that are the MacGuffin of Hawks's "The Big Sleep").

Vinnie has also kept the pornographic evidence of the blackmail scheme in a shoe box.

The EU has rolled over to the blackmail from President Erdoğan".

Indeed, the blackmail allegation was widely and prominently reported as if it were established fact.

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