blackmailers

plural of blackmailer

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackmailers
Noun
  • Others are new, building on a genuinely fresh and funny revelation that explains not only a cold open involving yakuza gangsters half a world away in Osaka, but also why this quaint town is sitting on a stash of weaponry big enough to overthrow the governments of several small nations.
    Katie Rife, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Inspired by the colonial Singapore gangsters rulers, four girls, at a modern-day regimented elite secondary school form their own gang cam-recording petty acts of rebellion, led by firebrand freethinking lesbian Choo Xin Yu.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Their neighbor, an older Jewish woman, gets arrested and Nazi thugs brazenly loot her apartment.
    Rabih Alameddine September 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • As night falls, armed thugs roam the streets and families pick up guns to protect themselves.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
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“Blackmailers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackmailers. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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