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Threatening letters

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(Law) letters containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters.

See also: Threatening



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Seized with an indescribable fury, they addressed threatening letters to the different members of the Gun Club by name.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
Five times in the last fortnight he's had threatening letters left at my flat, and I can't even find out who leaves them, let alone if it is Welkin himself.
The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
Nobody writes threatening letters about money to this place.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
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