Crossword-Solution: BLACKMAILING 12 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 23

The affair on the liner—I mean the matter of the card game—was for the purpose of blackmailing the knowledge they seek from my husband.

Blackmailing.] To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.

Tavender, to explain to said Committee his share in the blackmailing scheme of which Lord Plowden, over his own signature, has furnished documentary evidence.” The nobleman continued to look down at the paper, after the power to hold it without shaking had left his hand.

You come here trying to work the most difficult and dangerous kind of a bluff,--knowing all the while that the witness you depended entirely upon had disappeared, you hadn't the remotest idea where,--and you actually let me lead you into giving me your signature to your own declaration that you are blackmailing me! Thinking it all over--you know--I can't see that you would be of much help to me in the City.” Lord Plowden joined perforce in the laughter with which the big man enjoyed his own pleasantry.

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