chantage

Historical Examples

• Thus the very basest of all trades, that of chantage, is encouraged by the law.

  A Problem in Modern Ethics

  John 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 Toxicology

  W. G. Aitchison Robertson

• This, of course, does not prove that the Members of the Council are amenable to Chantage.

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894

  Various

• 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 Paris

  Honore 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