blackmail
Example Sentences
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“This is not a legitimate claim — it is blackmail.”
From Los Angeles Times
Since the new law’s enactment, the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum, a Ugandan advocacy group, has documented more than 1,200 cases of blackmail and harassment.
"Nobody can blackmail the European institutions," he said.
From BBC
I spoke to the late-life lovebirds about their process of marital manuscript-making: the good, the not so good and the blackmailing.
From Los Angeles Times
John Rogers was convicted of a lesser charge in a case that featured spycraft, online seduction and a blackmail scam.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
