blackmailer

• Nom désignant une personne qui commet le délit d'extorsion d'argent ou d'autres avantages auprès de quelqu'un sous la menace de révéler des informations compromettantes, embarrassantes ou dommageables le concernant.

A noun referring to a person who commits the crime of extorting money or other benefits from someone by threatening to reveal compromising, embarrassing, or damaging information about them.

1. ExtortionistB2formallegal

   A person who demands money or other benefits from someone by threatening to reveal damaging or embarrassing information about them.

   Maître chanteur (extorsion)

   • The blackmailer threatened to release private photos unless he was paid.
   • Police arrested the blackmailer after a sting operation.
   • She lived in fear of the blackmailer's next demand.

   Synonymesextortionerextortionistracketeer