I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
emotional
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There is emotional blackmail over custody of the daughter.
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No, he used some pretty outrageous emotional blackmail on me.
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Some people even resort to emotional blackmail and games, which can end in making everyone unhappy.
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This cleans the slate making it less likely that you will feel guilty or succumb to any future pressure or emotional blackmail .
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Be especially wary of using emotional blackmail .
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All the rest is emotional blackmail .
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It's not emotional blackmail - but once or twice recently, I've felt that I've nearly bought it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"If you don't give me the money, I'm going to tell your wife." "This is blackmail !"
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Bates got a 5-year jail sentence for blackmail .
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They said if I didn't do the overtime I'd lose my job - it was blackmail .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Damn McIllvanney, I thought, and damn his blackmail .
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For drama, the old boyfriend shows up with blackmail on his mind.
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He said Shooter, who admitted the blackmail plot at an earlier hearing, was an author of several works of fiction.
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It fostered an atmosphere of intimidation and blackmail within which realism came to sound like racism.
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Many elements in its tale of crime, rape, blackmail and luxury beyond dreams are duplicated in the Fujian affair.
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No, he used some pretty outrageous emotional blackmail on me.
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She recounted the harassments and blackmail threats by Atkins and his undercover colleague.
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This is a move that immediately suggests a preliminary to political blackmail .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ford had been blackmailing a gay naval officer.
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Gina tried to blackmail him, by threatening to tell his wife about their affair.
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She had tried to use the photographs to blackmail him into marrying her.
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The FBI blackmailed her into informing on the other members of the gang.
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The priest was being blackmailed by a woman who said he was the father of her child.
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We will not be blackmailed into silence.
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You cannot blackmail a man who has nothing to hide.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Capshaw was going to try to blackmail him.
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I am being blackmailed, in a way that the police can not help with.
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It even crossed my mind that she might blackmail some one.
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Laura Channing was about to be blackmailed, and my money said Vecchi was the would-be collector on that deal, too.
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Nowhere is it easier to blackmail than in the criminal underworld and the grey areas of conduct that surround it.
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To blackmail a man because he likes dressing in women's clothes.
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Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek?