Blackmail (Crossword clue)
Definitions of “Blackmail”
If the answer you seek is not in the answers above these definitions may help solving your crossword puzzle.• Making an unwarranted demand with menaces
• Exert pressure on someone through threats
• Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation
• Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin
• Extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
• Criminal offence of extorting money with menaces or threats of detrimental action
• 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 criminal act of extortion, malicious threatening to do injury to another to compel him to do an act against his will
• A tribute formerly exacted in the north of England and in Scotland by freebooting chiefs for protection from pillage
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