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| Main Entry: |
blackmail
 [blak-meyl] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intimidation for money; money to quiet informer |
| Synonyms: | bribe, bribery, exaction, extortion, hush money, milking, payoff, protection, ransom, slush fund, tribute |
| Main Entry: | payola |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bribe |
| Synonyms: | bribery, graft, payoff |
| Main Entry: | villainousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruption |
| Synonyms: | bestiality, breach of trust, bribery, bribing, crime, crookedness, demoralization, depravity, exploitation, extortion, fiddling, flagitiousness, fraud*, fraudulency, graft, immorality, jobbery, malfeasance, misrepresentation, nepotism, on the take, payoff, payola, perversion, profiteering, racket, shadiness, shady deal, shuffle, skimming, squeeze*, turpitude, unscrupulousness, venality, vice, villainy, wickedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Example Sentences
- He charged ten people with bribery and defrauding the state.
- Low pay and widespread corruption may make their border patrols prone to bribery.
- Over the years, he has been tried more than a dozen times for fraud, false accounting or bribery.
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