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| Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
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| error / false / to extort |
| Simplified Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
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ja3 | zaa3 | to extort under false pretenses / to blackmail / to bluff / to defraud |
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The journalist used blackmail to make the lawyer give him the documents.
The government insisted that it would not be blackmailed by violence.
Family control would prevent any hostile takeover or greenmail attempt.
We can't let Macmillan practice this emotional blackmail on us.
The foreign minister declared in a statement to the press that he would never submit to blackmail.
You're a damned blackmailer. I've a good mind to call your bluff.
Democratic paper " nailed " an aggravated case of blackmailing to me.
