Crossword clues for blackmailed
blackmailed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blackmail \Black"mail`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blackmailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blackmailing.] To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud. [U. S.]
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: blackmail)
Wikipedia
Blackmailed is a 1951 British drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Fay Compton and Robert Flemyng. It was adapted from a novel by Elizabeth Myers and was also released as Mrs. Christopher.
Usage examples of "blackmailed".
By the same token, since the papers are what the victim fears, he wouldn't ring us and say he was being blackmailed.
I discovered the comatose body of the Energy Ministry's oil supremo after he had told me comma in a hysterical phone call comma that he was being blackmailed point par.
What about the call from the man himself, claiming he was being blackmailed?
We've got a blackmailed politician committing suicide, and the Evening Post says it's an accidental overdose.
We know we got an anonymous tip that the man had spent the night with a whore, and that someone phoned up claiming to be Fitzpeterson and saying he was being blackmailed by Laski and Cox.
Hartnell was the only person I knew of in number one lab in a position to be blackmailed or coerced.
Hartnell's financial troubles -- and decided he could be blackmailed into helping them by acting as decoy from the break-out from Mordon.
Jimmy is dead because he fell for a night-club hostess who's being blackmailed.
And for good measure he was also being blackmailed for approximately twenty-five thousand pounds a month.
There is the theory that she was being blackmailed, that she went that morning to meet the blackmailer and that the blackmailer killed her.
She was the type of woman easily swindled by a handsome young man—but she was not at all the type of woman to be blackmailed.
There are rumours that she murdered her first husband, that she was being blackmailed, and that her secret lover was Roger Ackroyd.
And only three know you were blackmailed, besides the blackmailer: Mr.
When X told Isabel he was being blackmailed, she knew it must be Barry.
May the one being blackmailed be so bold as to ask why this female spook gets preferred treatment?