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graymail

graymail noun: the threatened exposure of state secrets in order to manipulate legal proceedings.

Noun

graymail (uncountable)

  1. (US) The threatened exposure of state secrets in order to manipulate legal proceedings.
  2. (Internet) Email that is not technically spam (since the user agreed to receive it) but which is unwanted, such as newsletters after making a purchase.

Verb

graymail (third-person singular simple present graymails, present participle graymailing, simple past and past participle graymailed)

  1. (US) To threaten exposure of state secrets in order to manipulate legal proceedings.

Forms of graymail

third-person singular presentgraymails
present participlegraymailing
past participlegraymailed
pastgraymailed

Origin of graymail

From gray + mail: in the threat sense, by analogy with blackmail.

Questions about graymail

What does graymail mean?
Graymail means the threatened exposure of state secrets in order to manipulate legal proceedings.
What part of speech is graymail?
Graymail can be a noun or a verb.

Words near graymail in the dictionary

  1. graylist
  2. graylisted
  3. graylisting
  4. graylists
  5. grayly
  6. graymail
  7. graymailed
  8. graymailing
  9. graymails
  10. graymalkin
  11. graymalkins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: graymail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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