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词汇 blackmailing
释义 blackmailing
present participle ofblackmail
blackmail
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈblæk.meɪl/ us /ˈblæk.meɪl/
C2
to get money from someone by blackmail: 敲诈,勒索;讹诈;胁迫
blackmail someone into somethingThey used the photographs to blackmail her into spying for them.他们用这些照片胁迫她为他们提供情报。
When he found out about my affair he tried to blackmail me.
A computer hacker's attempt to blackmail the bank was foiled by detectives last month.
The gang thought they could use the photographs to blackmail the pop star.
If someone is blackmailing you, you really must inform the police.
The film is about a city dealer who is blackmailing his boss.
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Examples of blackmailing


blackmailing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Different models incorporated different types of manipulation, such as exaggerated begging regardless of need, or "blackmailing" parents by reducing one's own fitness until provided with extra food.
The ramifications of the blackmailing fraternity are some of the most extraordinary things in criminology.
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Blackmailing threats of resignation indicate a weakness which is a running sore already and will develop into a festering boil.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
In this case he ought to be prosecuted, even if a prosecutor begins proceedings for blackmailing purposes or anything else.
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The chances therefore of a frivolous, vexatious or blackmailing action by a middle-class plaintiff are unfortunately only too high at the moment.
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I am nevertheless a little hurt to hear we have been blackmailing our partners.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It is inevitable that blackmailing methods will be adopted and will flourish when a private person is a party to litigation.
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There is very little, blackmailing in connection with that.
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No doubt blackmailing cases are not uncommon; that is beyond question, and through the newspapers one has become familiar with the great range they cover.
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The blackmailing practices of unions must be made to stop.
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In view of the element of sympathy that is involved, is he not blackmailing the workers?
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I have no approval of the blackmailing methods adopted for raising the price.
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She can turn one way and the other, blackmailing this way and that.
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Does he realise that the real level of unemployment—more than 4 million—is blackmailing many people into premature retirement and early poverty?
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It would be blackmailing the innocent for sin.
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