blackmailer
blackmailer noun: someone who blackmails.
Noun
blackmailer (plural blackmailers)
- Someone who blackmails.
- "It’s a crime crueller and infinitely worse in its results than murder. As a lawyer, I can only say that I have consistently refused to defend a blackmailer or to prosecute any poor devil who does away with his tormentor.”1928, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker, spoken by Sir Impey Biggs
- This sex blackmailer and dryhanded public virgin was lunching secretly each week with the East Coast spokesman for organized crime, Frank Costello, in N.Y. Central Park's Tavern on the Green (according to the Time magazine obituary).1981, Geoffrey Rips, Anne Janowitz, Nancy Joyce Peters, The Campaign against the underground press, page 33
Forms of blackmailer
| plural | blackmailers |
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Origin of blackmailer
From blackmail + -er.
Questions about blackmailer
- What does blackmailer mean?
- Blackmailer means someone who blackmails.
- What part of speech is blackmailer?
- Blackmailer is a noun.
- What is the plural of blackmailer?
- The plural of blackmailer is blackmailers.
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