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Pronounce Blackmail as B L AH K K M AH IY L.

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    Blackmail phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'blackmail'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of blackmail: /blækkmæɪl/
    • Modern IPA representation of blackmail: /blæckmæɪl/

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    List of meaning for blackmail

    to extort money from another by means of intimidation to not release damaging information

    blackmail(verb)

    extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information

    blackmail, blackjack, pressure(verb)

    exert pressure on someone through threats

    blackmail(verb)

    obtain through threats

    to use blackmail against (someone)

    The old man was being blackmailed by his nephew.

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    blackmail in sentence

    1. The strange man tried to blackmail the clerk into helping him draw the money, but he failed.

    2. How dare you threaten to besmirch my name if I refuse to pay your blackmail demands!

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term blackmail

    The purpose of that website is to blackmail women whose private and intimate photos had been published without their permission, some of the photos came from scorned lovers, some came from hacked emails, some came from stolen cell phones, and some came from victims who didn't know they'd been photographed.

    – Deputy Attorney General

    If the U.S. is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment, we will no longer be interested in such dialogue and cannot but reconsider our proceeding to the DPRK-U.S. summit, we have already stated our intention for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and made clear on several occasions that precondition for denuclearization is to put an end to anti-DPRK hostile policy and nuclear threats and blackmail of the United States.

    – Kim Kye Gwan

    We have already stated our intention for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and made clear on several occasions that precondition for denuclearization is to put an end to anti-DPRK hostile policy and nuclear threats and blackmail of the United States.

    – Kim Kye Gwan

    There will be a lot of intimidation from work places onwards, spreading out to schools, to academia, to the legislative council, government offices and so on, i don't think it's possible to have a political purge in Hong Kong but it might become something that we haven’t experienced before in Hong Kong. They may try to blackmail people, to weaken our determination.

    – Kenneth Chan Ka-lok

    A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the Federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house. The law will of necessity have inquisitorial features, it will provide penalties. It will create a complicated machinery. Under it businessmen will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of Federal inspectors, spies and detectives will descend upon the state. They will compel men of business to show their books and disclose the secrets of their affairs. They will dictate forms of bookkeeping. They will require statements and affidavits. On the one hand the inspector can blackmail the taxpayer and on the other, he can profit by selling his secret to his competitor.

    – Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr.

    The lenders want to impose hard measures. If they do not back down from this package of blackmail the government ... will have to seek alternative solutions, elections.

    – Dimitris Stratoulis

    For John Brennan, the most recent former CIA director, to come forward and insinuate -- on national TV -- that a sitting president is the subject of blackmail by a foreign adversary is outrageous, there used to be a day when intelligence officials, whether they were in office or out of office, would not spew innuendo like that, especially such grave charges.

    – Buck Sexton

    While the programme is active until Tuesday, they aren't providing the necessary liquidity for Greek banks just to blackmail and to terrorize us, if we vote a yes, they will demolish pensions, you will have to pay for medicare in public hospitals. When your kids can't go to school you will say' thanks' and they will say' you asked for it'.

    – Administrative Reforms Minister George Katrougalos

    They're physically forced or forced through blackmail to engage in sex, to have someone say this is chosen is just showing such great disregard for what we know about the world of sexual assault in prison.

    – Cynthia Struckman-Johnson

    This is a political act when the President is under investigation, when his White House counsel was described yesterday as being told that his national security adviser was subject to blackmail by the Russians, and they fired the Attorney General a few days later, now they fired the FBI director.

    – Donald Trump

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