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blackmail
noun as in intimidation for money; money to quiet informer
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Example Sentences
Something more horrible, though, lies in store when the narrator falls prey to a catastrophic blackmail plot.
But it is also an attempt to destabilize European democracies through energy blackmail and attacks on infrastructure.
Ms Johnson said her mum had been "blackmailed" by staff who threatened to "reveal something about her" if she did not change her story about the events on 14 January.
The judge added that Davies had used "trickery, lies, manipulations and blackmail" to satisfy his "twisted appetite" with a high level of control and planning.
Mr. Putin has tried to use nuclear blackmail for three years to talk the U.S. out of donating this or that weapon.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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