chantage
[shahn-tazh]
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noun French.
Origin of chantage
First recorded in 1870–75
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Examples from the Web for chantage
Historical Examples of chantage
Thus the very basest of all trades, that of chantage, is encouraged by the law.
A Problem in Modern EthicsJohn Addington Symonds
There are in London and every large city scores of men and women who live by blackmailing or chantage.
Aids to Forensic Medicine and ToxicologyW. G. Aitchison Robertson
This, of course, does not prove that the Members of the Council are amenable to Chantage.
That was a bit of 'chantage' that you did with Dauriat; he gave you a thousand crowns to let Nathan alone.
A Distinguished Provincial at ParisHonore de Balzac
With men such as Capt, chantage, as the French call it, is a favourite mode of obtaining wealth.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume III (of 3)Charles James Wills