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Blackmailer

Blackmailer \Black"mail`er\, n. One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.

Wiktionary
blackmailer

n. Someone who blackmails.

WordNet
blackmailer

n. a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them [syn: extortioner, extortionist]

Wikipedia
Blackmailer (1936 film)

Blackmailer is a 1936 American thriller film directed by Gordon Wiles and starring William Gargan, Florence Rice and H.B. Warner.

Blackmailer (1937 film)

Blackmailer'' (Czech:Vyderac'') is a 1937 Czech drama film directed by Ladislav Brom.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Jan Zázvorka.

Usage examples of "blackmailer".

Thea said that Drake could be quite ruthless, and dealing with a blackmailer required that trait.

The blackmailer had given her all she needed to defeat his nefarious schemes.

You will notice the blackmailer thought nothing of demanding you come to Hyde Park in the middle of the night.

He motioned silently for Ravenswood to bring the blackmailer, and for Drake and Irisa to head back toward the hansom cab.

If the blackmailer had come to full consciousness, he had made no attempt to call for help.

He rested his feet on the blackmailer, exerting pressure to keep the man in place.

Once the blackmailer realized his attempt at kidnapping had failed, he would avoid any connection to the person who might identify him.

She could not see one of them so moved they would go to the lengths the blackmailer had in order to get revenge for the rejection.

But instinct told her that the blackmailer would seek her out and if it took a while to hunt her down, she might be able to use that time to do something constructive.

The image of paying off a blackmailer for the next several years was enough to make Abby throw back the down-filled quilt and scramble out of bed in restless anger.

Or the blackmailer might simply have done some investigation on his own.

It was terrifying to think that the blackmailer knew her so intimately.

By the time he caught up with her the blackmailer might already have found her.

That he murdered your blackmailer and planted the weapon in your house to frame you for the crime.

He was sitting, drinking, trying to get up enough courage to refuse to pay the blackmailer any more money.