chantage
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chantage
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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This collection spans three different incarnations of that life: Ms. Goldman as a solo artist; as a vocalist collaborating with the spacey rock outfit the Flying Lizards; and as part of the chanson-meets-dub duo Chantage.
From New York Times
Chantage, shan-t�j′, chant′āj, n. extortion of money by threats of scandalous revelations.
From Project Gutenberg
Everybody thinks it is blackmail—a case of chantage.
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These offences fall partly under the head of robbery and partly under blackmail, or what in French is termed chantage.
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His anti-Semitism was adopted originally as a means of chantage, and it was only when it failed to yield profit in this form that he came out boldly as an agitator.
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