blackmail

• Stablehands in New Orleans referred to New York racetracks's as the BIG APPLE blackmail Q: Please tell me what the origin of the word blackmail is. —  The Word Detective
• Pinter is guilty of blackmail, which is evil enough, I grant you. —  Mary Balogh - Irresistible.pdf
• It has been used as a tool of emotional blackmail, along with threats and intimidation towards women trafficked illegally into Australia. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
• There remains the question of whether blackmail, especially sexual blackmail is routinely used as a tool to keep government and media officials from not straying too far from the dirty business of imperialism and financial chicanery of the sort that has brought the economy to its knees. —  The Existentialist Cowboy
• Intense political pressure, threats of unemployment in a time of economic crisis and potentially embarassing sexual acts subject to blackmail are all entirely made possible by the rampant unaccountability of the domestic spying programs, but are there measures that go far beyond just the spiking of stories, the discrediting or the ruining of careers alone? —  The Existentialist Cowboy

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