Thesaurus results for BLACKMAILER

blackmailer

noun

as in gangster

a person who gets money from another by using force or threats the blackmailer threatened to tell the media about the mayor's arrest as a teenager

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Recent Examples of blackmailer The blackmailer continues to call her, demanding money in exchange for keeping her cam-boy secrets. —

Erin Qualey, Vulture, 29 May 2026 On advice of his crisis lawyer Ira Slitz (Hill, unrecognizable with a bald head and gray beard), Reef sets out to apologize to everyone from his past who may be angry with him in an effort to find the blackmailer. —

Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026 In Season 2, eager to take on another big undercover case, Charles Nieuwendyk (Danson) gets his chance when a mysterious blackmailer targets Wheeler College president Jack Berenger (Max Greenfield), who enlists Charles to go undercover as a professor. —

Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026 Charles’ boss, Julie (Lilah Richcreek Estrada), takes the case, and given Charles’ background as a retired Cal State East Bay engineering professor, installs him as a visiting professor tasked with rooting out the blackmailer. —

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Nov. 2025 Although the threat of death was everywhere in this show, the list of actual deaths is relatively short and the majority had to do with the anonymous blackmailer and the secrets and lies built around Alison’s fake death. —

Catherine Mhloyi, Them., 29 Oct. 2025 Despite paying off blackmailers and marrying Lady Olivia Hedges (Danielle Galligan) to protect his secret, Arthur still loses his father’s Parliament seat after getting caught committing election fraud. —

Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025 Grandchildren are being summoned to help grandparents deal with blackmailers. —

Yvonne Zipp, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Neither immigrant family should be linked to violent gangsters, of course.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2026
By telling a relatively straightforward story that blends real people from the era of the Gotti Mafia family with imagined characters, Martin Scorsese's dramedy biopic about a kid who falls in love with the gangster life is as even-keeled as anything the director has made.

— Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026