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chantage
[ shahn-tazh ]
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Origin of chantage1
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Example Sentences
That Aretino was the inventor of literary chantage is certain; but that it was justifiable, does not appear.
Thus the very basest of all trades, that of chantage, is encouraged by the law.
He is a rotten little egotist and I wouldn't put him above chantage, polite chantage, if you will, but plain extortion at the end.
That was a bit of 'chantage' that you did with Dauriat; he gave you a thousand crowns to let Nathan alone.
There are in London and every large city scores of men and women who live by blackmailing or chantage.
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