Thesaurus results for BLACKMAILERS

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 So did blackmailers, for whom merely stepping into a urinal was enough to launch a harassment campaign. — JSTOR Daily, 24 Mar. 2023

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British gangsters colliding with the Italian Mafia just feels so right for our world.

— Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2026
Live actors would appear throughout, sometimes as gangsters in a noir crime movie, and sometimes as Wild West cowboys.

— Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of gangsters

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That a Christian man was responsible for the devastation in Oklahoma City certainly didn’t matter to the thugs who terrorized a Muslim woman there, nearly seven months pregnant, by attacking her home, breaking her windows, screaming religious slurs.

— Reshma Memon Yaqub, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Some of the thugs were actual neo-Nazis, led by real-life Russian fascist Maksim Martsinkevich, who would later be imprisoned for posting racist videos, investigated for murder and, in 2020, found dead in his cell of an apparent suicide.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of thugs

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There still will be scammers, extortionists, extremists and others who try to take advantage of teens and adults.

— Larry Magid, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026
As bomb technicians struggled to disarm the explosive, the FBI raced against the clock to deliver the ransom while simultaneously hunting the extortionists.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of extortionists

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