Blackmail

(noun.) extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information.

(verb.) obtain through threats.

(verb.) exert pressure on someone through threats.

阿伦编辑

• There's blackmail in it, or I am much mistaken. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I am aware of the contract-grafts, the franchise-steals, the dirty streets, the bribing and the blackmail, the vice-and-crime partnerships, the Big Business alliances of Tammany Hall. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• To begin with, barter, blackmail, tribute, and robbery by violence passed into each other by insensible degrees. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If ever he blackmailed an innocent person, then indeed we should have him, but he is as cunning as the Evil One. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He is known to have held papers which he used for blackmailing purposes. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• If this young person should produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is she to prove their authenticity? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.

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