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Definition of Blackmailer
1. Noun. A criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them.
Generic synonyms: Criminal, Crook, Felon, Malefactor, Outlaw
Derivative terms: Blackmail, Blackmail, Extortion, Extortion
Definition of Blackmailer
1. n. One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
Definition of Blackmailer
1. Noun. Someone who blackmails. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blackmailer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackmailer
Literary usage of Blackmailer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Episodes by George Slythe Street (1895)
"THE blackmailer LORD CHARLES is a very pleasant, comfortable sort of man. You meet
him in the shadiest haunts of dissipation, quite unperturbed and casual, ..."
2. Olden Times in Colorado by Carlyle Channing Davis (1916)
"THE RETORT FINAL—"A THIEF BY INSTINCT, A BLACKMAiLER BY PROFESSION" Col. Arkins'
mantle had fallen upon the capable shoulders of Major Henry Ward, US Army, ..."
3. Humors of the Railroad Kings: Authentic and Original Anecdotes of Prominent by George G] [Small (1872)
"... JEM FISK AND THE blackmailer, A BAD HEADWAY. A FEW years ago, when Jem Fisk
was in " hot water," and his official as well as his domestic relations were ..."
4. Police Administration: A Critical Study of Police Organisations in the by Leonhard Felix Fuld (1909)
"When an applicant has paid money to such a blackmailer and is later appointed in
due course he is so happy at his appointment that he gratefully believes ..."
5. Courts, Criminals and the Camorra by Arthur Cheney Train (1912)
"The blackmailer was a German Socialist, who was out of employment—a man of
desperate character. He had made up his mind that the world owed him a living, ..."
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