Collocations for "blackmail"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "blackmail" in context.
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blackmail
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- had to resort to blackmail (to)
- resorted to threats and blackmail
- don't want to have to resort to blackmail, but
- This is blackmail!
- it is considered blackmail to
- used blackmail to get her way
- used blackmail to [influence, achieve, force, gain]
- used emotional blackmail (on)
- use [sensitive photos, revealing documents] as blackmail
- leaves you [open, vulnerable] to blackmail
- has never stooped [as low as, to] blackmail
- [essentially, basically] amounts to blackmail
- is accused of blackmail
- was [found guilty, convicted] of blackmail
- was [arrested for, charged with] blackmail
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