Definition: 1. Extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information. 2. Exert pressure on someone through threats. 3. Obtain through threats.
Use 'blackmail' in a sentence:
1. The foreign minister declared in a statement to the press that he would never submit to blackmail.
2. A Probe into Two Problems of Blackmail Charges.
3. He was blackmailed by an enemy agent ( into passing on state secrets).
4. A real friend could blackmail you with it.
5. The government insisted that it would not be blackmailed by violence.
6. I thought he was trying to blackmail me into saying whatever he wanted.
7. Democratic paper "nailed" an aggravated case of blackmailing to me.
8. Efficient E-Cash Scheme to Prevent Blackmailing Based on Group Blind Signature.
9. The journalist used blackmail to make the lawyer give him the documents.
10. She started off by accusing him of blackmail but he more or less ignored her.
11. He broke her by the threat of blackmail.
12. “Commercial blackmail,” said Mr Aliev.
13. They get& 25000 from the managing director by blackmail.
14. It looks like the pictures were being used for blackmail.
15. The President said he wouldn't be blackmailed into agreeing to the terrorists' demands.
16. Your need to use emotional blackmail will only cause more conflict.
17. Or will that look like giving in to Russian blackmail?
18. Study offered me entry to new worlds far from the stifling atmosphere of my mother's emotional blackmail.
19. You were the one that brought up the idea of blackmail. I'd never be a party to such a thing.
20. Crying is blackmail. Use it if you must, but don't expect us to like it.
21. The burglar begins to blackmail to her.
22. C.* blackmailing you to get something I want.
23. He was sent to jail for blackmail.
24. Your emotional blackmail will usually hold a Gemini, but sorrow almost always prevails.
25. That strikes some Americans as nothing less than blackmail.
26. Don't use emotional blackmail on someone you love.
27. To blackmail him?
28. Blackmail is a species of crime which we all hate.
29. If someone tried to blackmail me I would tell the police.
30. Opponents accused him of blackmail and extortion.
31. They tried to blackmail me (into giving them the money).
32. He told her their affair would have to stop, because Jack Smith was blackmailing him.
33. She demanded$ 1000 blackmail from him.
34. It's blackmail, pure and simple.
35. She's probably thinking that this sounds like emotional blackmail, but he genuinely is considering his son.
36. Such as blackmail, robbery, hijacking, kidnapping, they live with us everywhere.
37. Blackmail, espionage, data theft. These are things that were proposed as reasonable things to do.
38. The question is whether Ukraine will try to blackmail Gazprom and Europe.
39. This is emotional blackmail.
40. The policemen kept blackmailing him, because they had sth. on him.
41. You could always use blackmail to get the money out of her.
42. That was a terrible case of blackmail in the paper today.
43. Second, she is using her tears as emotional blackmail, a form of manipulation, and he resents it.
44. But he added those methods included blackmail and threats.
45. But it was his plan all along to blackmail us.
46. She was a prime target for blackmail, don't you see?
47. We may leave our lights on in the house when we are on vacation, but through social media we tell criminals where we are, when we plan to return home, and how to blackmail us.
48. It is no less than blackmail to ask such a high price.
49. The group could blackmail the government into meeting its demands.
50. She blackmailed him for years by threatening to tell the newspapers about their affair.
51. The tactics employed can range from overt bullying to subtle emotional blackmail.
