Definition of Blackmailer

1. Noun. A criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them.

Exact synonyms: Extortioner, Extortionist
Generic synonyms: Criminal, Crook, Felon, Malefactor, Outlaw
Derivative terms: Blackmail, Blackmail, Extortion, Extortion

Definition of Blackmailer

1. n. One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.

Definition of Blackmailer

1. Noun. Someone who blackmails. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blackmailer

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackmailer

blacklights
blacklip
blacklist
blacklisted
blacklistee
blacklistees
blacklister
blacklisters
blacklisting
blacklistings
blacklists
blackly
blackmail
blackmailable
blackmailed
blackmailer
blackmailers
blackmailing
blackmails
blackmark
blackmarked
blackmarking
blackmarks
blackmoor
blackmoors
blackness
blacknesses
blackout
blackout lamp

Literary usage of Blackmailer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Episodes by George Slythe Street (1895)
"THE Blackmailer LORD CHARLES is a very pleasant, comfortable sort of man. You meet him in the shadiest haunts of dissipation, quite unperturbed and casual, ..."

2. Olden Times in Colorado by Carlyle Channing Davis (1916)
"THE RETORT FINAL—"A THIEF BY INSTINCT, A BLACKMAiLER BY PROFESSION" Col. Arkins' mantle had fallen upon the capable shoulders of Major Henry Ward, US Army, ..."

3. Humors of the Railroad Kings: Authentic and Original Anecdotes of Prominent by George G] [Small (1872)
"... JEM FISK AND THE Blackmailer, A BAD HEADWAY. A FEW years ago, when Jem Fisk was in " hot water," and his official as well as his domestic relations were ..."

4. Police Administration: A Critical Study of Police Organisations in the by Leonhard Felix Fuld (1909)
"When an applicant has paid money to such a blackmailer and is later appointed in due course he is so happy at his appointment that he gratefully believes ..."

5. Courts, Criminals and the Camorra by Arthur Cheney Train (1912)
"The blackmailer was a German Socialist, who was out of employment—a man of desperate character. He had made up his mind that the world owed him a living, ..."

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