blackmail

noun verb15 collocationsAvg. frequency: 6.7

using someone's feelings to manipulate them

using threats or secrets to gain political advantage

using someone's sense of duty or morals to manipulate them

using economic power or threats to force a country or company to do something

threatening to use nuclear weapons to achieve political goals

to use someone's feelings to manipulate them into doing something

to blackmail someone in a way that produces the intended result

to do something that is almost the same as blackmail

to make an effort to blackmail someone

to make an effort to blackmail someone

a statement of an intention to blackmail someone

an act of trying to blackmail someone

a clever and often dishonest plan to blackmail someone

a secret plan to blackmail someone

used to describe forcing someone to do something they don't want to do