blackmailers

noun

plural of blackmailer
as in gangsters
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 blackmailers 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackmailers
  1. gangsters
  2. thugs
  3. extortionists
  4. racketeers
Noun
  • Remember all those fake memoirs from the early 2000s, by all those writers pretending to be addicts and gangsters and Holocaust survivors?
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
  • In each, the protagonist(s) will be sought by both police and gangsters yet will lose their own money and have to get along without any while on the run.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
Definition of gangsters
Noun
  • Shortly after his big win, he’s attacked by two thugs in a parking garage.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 July 2026
  • The night of the title fight, Duke is attacked by two thugs who smash his hand with a hammer and, in the ensuing chaos, kill somebody close to him.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026
Definition of thugs
Noun
  • The restaurant owner, who did not wish to be identified because his family is still in India, said extortionists have threatened to kill them.
    — Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026
  • As the bomb squad works to disarm it, FBI rushes to catch the extortionists.
    — William Earl, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of extortionists
Noun
  • Of course, entrusting waste management to gangsters and racketeers has repercussions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 July 2026
  • The characters were based on a real family of bookmakers and racketeers who once lived in England.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 5 Mar. 2026
Definition of racketeers

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