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Blackmailing

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Black´mail`ing
n.1.The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.


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There are a certain number of riverside roughs who make quite an income, during the summer, by slouching about the banks and blackmailing weak-minded noodles in this way.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
Even the newspapers, with one or two blackmailing exceptions, ceased abusing him and became respectful.
Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context
No doubt his blackmailing case is absorbing all his faculties.
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