0 to obtain money illegally from (a person), usually by threatening to make known something which the victim wants to keep secret -- tống tiền
The politician was being blackmailed by an ex-girlfriend.
1 the act of blackmailing -- sự tống tiền
That bribery and blackmail resemble market transactions is not sufficient as a test of their legitimacy.
However, persuasion was not always enough, and the priests were forced into blackmail.
Is someone being blackmailed, persecuted or haunted for an all too human previous transgression ?
Fearing a kind of ' domino-effect ', some local officials were determined not to give in to such blackmail.
First, he claimed that he used the missing file to blackmail the secret police and save his life.
State and hospital officials refused to release other bodies from the morgue for burial until the uproar quieted, leveraging the dead as blackmail.
But in the example above this admirable act is preceded by blackmail.
Are we willing to reduce the sentence of an offender if he accepts the operation, or is this a form of blackmail?
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