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blackmailer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From blackmail + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone who blackmails.
   • "It’s a crime crueller and infinitely worse in its results than murder. As a lawyer, I can only say that I have consistently refused to defend a blackmailer or to prosecute any poor devil who does away with his tormentor.” 1928, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker, spoken by Sir Impey Biggs:
   • Ordinary people have already been face-swapped into videos for humorous or prank purposes and there is no reason to believe that abusers, harassers, stalkers, and blackmailers will not soon be face-swapping victims into compromising video as part of their arsenal. 2018 April, Larry Zimmerman, “Cheap and Easily Manipulated Video”, in The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association, Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Bar Association, →ISSN, page 21:
   • This sex blackmailer and dryhanded public virgin was lunching secretly each week with the East Coast spokesman for organized crime, Frank Costello, in N.Y. Central Park's Tavern on the Green (according to the Time magazine obituary). 1981, Geoffrey Rips, Anne Janowitz, Nancy Joyce Peters, The Campaign against the underground press, page 33:

Forms

Translations (53)

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