单词 | blackmailer |
释义 | blackmailern. A person who blackmails another. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > blackmail > one who blackmails bribera1387 blackmailer1833 1833 Crisis 30 Nov. 105/1 Lawyers were..a modern refinement of ancient highwaymen and blackmailers, who abstracted the property of the rich, and divided it amongst the poor. 1857 N.Y. Herald 24 June 5/6 Blackmailers and vampyres. Conviction of a merchant for theft. 1879 J. Hawthorne Laughing Mill 108 Were I to lose all my fortune, I could, by turning black-mailer, ensure a permanent income twice as large. 1949 Z. N. Hurston Let. 2 May in Life in Lett. (2002) 583 On his own, he exposed himself as an extortionist, a black-mailer and a brazen perjurer. 2007 L. M. Friedman Guarding Life's Dark Secrets v. 81 Society condemns the blackmailer as low, loathsome, and unscrupulous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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