Word: blackmailing
To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc. Example: He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
(Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.
The act of one who blackmails.
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