blackmailing

English

Verb

blackmailing

1. present participle and gerund of blackmail

Noun

blackmailing (plural blackmailings)

1. The act of one who blackmails.
   • 1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times (book 2, page 51)

     All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings, and blackmailings.