chantage
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chantage
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Well, really, my poor moral sense is unable to distinguish these remarkable proceedings of the new popular tribunate from what, in French, is called chantage and, in plain English, blackmailing.
From Evolution and Ethics by Huxley, Thomas Henry
These offences fall partly under the head of robbery and partly under blackmail, or what in French is termed chantage.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
Thus the very basest of all trades, that of chantage, is encouraged by the law.
From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by Symonds, John Addington
Everybody thinks it is blackmail—a case of chantage.
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
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