chantage

That Aretino was the inventor of literary chantage is certain; but that it was justifiable, does not appear.

Thus the very basest of all trades, that of chantage, is encouraged by the law.

He is a rotten little egotist and I wouldn't put him above chantage, polite chantage, if you will, but plain extortion at the end.

That was a bit of 'chantage' that you did with Dauriat; he gave you a thousand crowns to let Nathan alone.

There are in London and every large city scores of men and women who live by blackmailing or chantage.