Blackmailer

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who levies, or attempts to levy, blackmail.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
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  • noun. Someone who blackmails.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them
    • Word Usage
    "The blackmailer is the sex offender …. ooops, I mean a professional researcher."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    criminal  crook  felon  malefactor  outlaw  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    adulteress  betrayer  blackleg  call-girl  charlatan  
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