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- adjective Who can be
blackmailed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rising out of a cultural landscape that virtually requires that you be "blackmailable" before even thinking of gaining an entrance to the inner circles of power comes a man who truly understands what it means to transcend both white and black American experiences.
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June 20th, 2009 LONDON - Silvio Berlusconi is so badly stuck in the labyrinth of controversies that he has become "blackmailable", says a leading Italian daily newspaper.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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He played a federal prosecutor who got shoved out of the Sonny Corinthos case (the character was a himbo with a blackmailable, hanky-panky past).
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"You are blackmailable," said Aftab, "... and you will do anything to keep those pictures from getting out."
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The unworthy thought crossed my mind that her present misbehaviour rendered her eminently blackmailable where Popplewell was concerned - but it was a purely Pickwickian reflection, you understand.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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The threat of explosion in Europe had arisen suddenly, like a genie from a bottle, worse than '48 or Crimea or San Stefano, and faced with the apparently impossible task of ensuring the Emperor's safety while keeping him in the dark, that ice-cold brain had seen that unlikely old Flashy was the vital cog, having the entr-e to Franz-Josef and being eminently blackmailable.
Watershed 2010
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Stop by and learn all kinds of blackmailable information.
January 2007 2007
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Stop by and learn all kinds of blackmailable information.
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"Because they need the money, and because Chávez has plenty of it, filmmakers are a highly blackmailable class," says Fernando Rodríguez, an art critic for the Caracas paper Tal Cual.
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I am beginning to draw the conclusion that nobody gets to high office in this sad rotting empire unless they are blackmailable.
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