blackmail 的 2 个定义
- any payment extorted by intimidation, as by threats of injurious revelations or accusations.
- the extortion of such payment: He confessed rather than suffer the dishonor of blackmail.
- a tribute formerly exacted in the north of England and in Scotland by freebooting chiefs for protection from pillage.
- to extort money from by the use of threats.
- to force or coerce into a particular action, statement, etc.: The strikers claimed they were blackmailed into signing the new contract.
blackmail 近义词
intimidation for money; money to quiet informer
intimidating for money
更多blackmail例句
- Be kind and fierce and don’t bend an inch to this emotional blackmail.
- Now 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.
- A few days later, Pearson exposed the blackmail of Bridges and Welker.
- Senate 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.”
- Ransomeware is highly effective when coupled with the exfiltration of secrets to add blackmail pressure for companies and institutions to pay up.
- Plus, his known drug dealings certainly made him vulnerable to blackmail.
- Americans are giving in to North Korean blackmail—and it will only get worse.
- Back in England, Hitchcock made the transition from silents to sound with Blackmail, Britain's first talkie.
- VanDyke confirmed the attack on his website, writing that SEA had emailed him a blackmail threat.
- The more accomplished students took classes in safe-cracking, burglary, blackmail, and confidence games.
- If this stinking quartet takes it into its head to levy annual blackmail, where is the money coming from?
- Bois l'Hery's horses were unsound, Schwalbach's gallery was a swindle, Moessard's articles a recognised blackmail.
- The only possible scandal lies in the fact that Mrs. Withers paid blackmail for years.
- He attempted to blackmail my father, as he had already done so many times, but his scheme was frustrated.
- All the American press is not founded upon this system of virtual blackmail.