Thesaurus / blackmail
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Be kind and fierce and don’t bend an inch to this emotional blackmail.
CAROLYN HAX: THEY’RE IN THEIR 40S NOW, BUT ONE SISTER STILL SAYS SHE’S THE OTHER’S ‘CO-PARENT’CAROLYN HAXAUGUST 26, 2021WASHINGTON POSTNow 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.
FEDS ARE SEIZING CRYPTOCURRENCY FROM CRIMINALS. NOW THEY HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH IT.REBECCA HEILWEILJULY 30, 2021VOXA few days later, Pearson exposed the blackmail of Bridges and Welker.
OUR POLITICS IS NO UGLIER OR MORE DYSFUNCTIONAL THAN IN THE PASTKYLE LONGLEYMAY 14, 2021WASHINGTON POSTSenate 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.”
TEXAS WAS ALREADY ONE OF THE HARDEST STATES TO VOTE IN. IT MAY GET EVEN HARDERSANYA MANSOORMAY 7, 2021TIMERansomeware is highly effective when coupled with the exfiltration of secrets to add blackmail pressure for companies and institutions to pay up.
HOW GOOTKIT TROJAN DISTRIBUTES RANSOMWARE VIA GOOGLE SERPSDETLEF JOHNSONMARCH 3, 2021SEARCH ENGINE LANDPolice are said to have contacted the hackers, who left behind a blackmail note, and persuaded them to supply a digital key that would decrypt the hospital’s 30 infected computer servers.
RANSOMWARE ATTACK ON A HOSPITAL MAY BE FIRST EVER TO CAUSE A DEATHRHHACKETTFORTUNESEPTEMBER 18, 2020FORTUNEIf this stinking quartet takes it into its head to levy annual blackmail, where is the money coming from?
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONBois l'Hery's horses were unsound, Schwalbach's gallery was a swindle, Moessard's articles a recognised blackmail.
THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDETThe only possible scandal lies in the fact that Mrs. Withers paid blackmail for years.
THE WINNING CLUEJAMES HAY, JR.He attempted to blackmail my father, as he had already done so many times, but his scheme was frustrated.
THE CZAR'S SPYWILLIAM LE QUEUXWORDS RELATED TO BLACKMAIL
- abduct
- appropriate
- blackmail
- burglarize
- carry off
- cheat
- cozen
- defraud
- despoil
- divert
- embezzle
- heist
- hold for ransom
- hold up
- housebreak
- keep
- kidnap
- lift
- loot
- make off with
- misappropriate
- peculate
- pilfer
- pillage
- pinch
- pirate
- plagiarize
- plunder
- poach
- purloin
- ransack
- remove
- rifle
- rip off
- run off with
- sack
- shoplift
- snitch
- spirit away
- stick up
- strip
- swindle
- swipe
- take
- take possession of
- thieve
- walk off with
- withdraw
- abuses
- admonishes
- augurs
- blackmails
- blusters
- browbeats
- bullies
- cautions
- comminates
- cows
- enforces
- flex muscles
- forebodes
- forewarns
- fulminates
- growls
- intimidates
- looks daggers
- makes threat
- menaces
- portends
- presages
- pressurizes
- pushes around
- scares
- scowls
- shakes fist at
- snarls
- spooks
- terrorizes
- torments
- walks heavy
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.