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Definition of Blackmailed

1. blackmail [v] - See also: blackmail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackmailed

Literary usage of Blackmailed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"Were the companies being blackmailed when they obtained this first piece of ... Is it because they have been blackmailed that certain gentlemen find it ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in Ohio Courts of Record by Robert D. Handy, William Disney (1897)
"Words charging a person as being a blackmailer and with having blackmailed persons before and having settled the cases, are not actionable per se. 2. ..."

3. Wickedness in High Places: A Review of the Beecher Case by Edmund Burke Fairfield (1874)
"And th'-n what remarkable treatment of the man who thus blackmailed ... blackmailed in the sum of $5000 at one time, and the money obtained by mortgaging ..."

4. Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly (1882)
"... that four-fifths of the shipping interests here has been blackmailed by the harbor-masters. Mr. "WILLIAMS—You ask if they will take up that question, ..."

5. Proceedings of the Joint Committee ... in the Matter of the Investigation by New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Standing Committee on Judiciary (1913)
"He had blackmailed him and blackmailed him successfully. We were on the eve again of a campaign which promised from all indications to be quite as bitter as ..."

6. Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies by Alexander Mayer-rieckh, Pablo De Greiff (2007)
"The commission does not evaluate how or why someone became an agent —for example, whether he/she was blackmailed by officers to cooperate with the III/III ..."

7. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"Were the companies being blackmailed when they obtained this first piece of ... Is it because they have been blackmailed that certain gentlemen find it ..."

8. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in Ohio Courts of Record by Robert D. Handy, William Disney (1897)
"Words charging a person as being a blackmailer and with having blackmailed persons before and having settled the cases, are not actionable per se. 2. ..."

9. Wickedness in High Places: A Review of the Beecher Case by Edmund Burke Fairfield (1874)
"And th'-n what remarkable treatment of the man who thus blackmailed ... blackmailed in the sum of $5000 at one time, and the money obtained by mortgaging ..."

10. Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly (1882)
"... that four-fifths of the shipping interests here has been blackmailed by the harbor-masters. Mr. "WILLIAMS—You ask if they will take up that question, ..."

11. Proceedings of the Joint Committee ... in the Matter of the Investigation by New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Standing Committee on Judiciary (1913)
"He had blackmailed him and blackmailed him successfully. We were on the eve again of a campaign which promised from all indications to be quite as bitter as ..."

12. Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies by Alexander Mayer-rieckh, Pablo De Greiff (2007)
"The commission does not evaluate how or why someone became an agent —for example, whether he/she was blackmailed by officers to cooperate with the III/III ..."

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