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blackmailer

Noun

Meaning

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

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The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer. Karl Kraus

LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ... the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species. Ambrose Bierce

Adds Block, "It is indeed difficult, then, to account for the vilification suffered by the blackmailer, at least compared to the gossip, who is usually dismissed with slight contempt and smugness." Source: Internet

A blackmailer hides in plain sight, using people's secrets for personal gain, and when this criminal sets his sights on the four young arsonists, he begins his most deadly game yet. Source: Internet

A blackmailer has pictures of a Fay Wray lookalike engaged in conduct that would make King Kong blush, and Fay's movie studio—with the cooperation of a slightly corrupt NYPD detective—wants the threat eliminated. Source: Internet

Amberiotis was a spy in Germany and France and sometime after that began his career as a blackmailer. Source: Internet

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