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Definition of Blackmails
1. blackmail [v] - See also: blackmail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackmails
Literary usage of Blackmails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Secrets of the Great Whiskey Ring by John McDonald (1880)
"... of Maguire as Collector— Babcock's Instrumentality—Telegrams from Grant and
Babcock—Visit of Revenue Agents—Brasher blackmails the Distillers. ..."
2. Secrets of the Great Whiskey Ring: And Eighteen Months in the Penitentiary by John McDonald (1880)
"... as Collector— Babcock's Instrumentality—Telegrams from Grant and Babcock—Visit
of Revenue Agents—Brasher blackmails the Distillers. ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1913)
"Zilla Paget. an actress, learns the truth and blackmails Enoch, who, after being
nearly killed by a falling curtain, recovers and makes restitution. ..."
4. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1917)
"... and introduces the snob who is taken in by a French barber, the merchant ruined
by his wife's extravagance, the confidential clerk who blackmails his ..."
5. The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt (1902)
"... duty is certain to have scoundrelly foes, and the bad man who blackmails these
same scoundrels usually has nothing but the same evidence against him. ..."
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