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Definition of Blackmailing
1. n. The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.
Definition of Blackmailing
1. Verb. (present participle of blackmail) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blackmailing
1. blackmail [v] - See also: blackmail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackmailing
Literary usage of Blackmailing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Libel and Slander in Civil and Criminal Cases: As Administered in by Martin L. Newell (1898)
"The words "The blackmailing crowd in West Twenty-fifth street had better beware.
Cautions 51 and 53," published of the plaintiff, ..."
2. Ten Years in Washington: Or, Life and Scenes in Our National Capital, as a by Mary Clemmer (1882)
"... Brass—" Paul Pry "—blackmailing—Feared by all Mankind—An Unpleasant Sort of
Woman—Arrested on Suspicion—A Small American Bastile—Where Wirz was Hung. ..."
3. The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush by George Scott Robertson (1896)
"... Indian presents—blackmailing—The Valley—Bridges—Kamu—Pleasure of chief men at
my visit—Rest: curiosity—Kamu to ..."
4. Annotated Forms of Federal Procedure by Frank Olds Loveland, George Washington Rightmire (1920)
"Indictment for Using the Mails for blackmailing Scheme. United States of America.
Division of the District of , ss. In the District Court of the United ..."
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