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What is emotional blackmail?

What is emotional blackmail? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The psychological abuse of a person's emotions or insecurities in order to influence their behaviour.
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So skinflints and kids can get other people to pay for their phone calls through emotional blackmail.
Clear-sightedness is only possible when one is not distracted by jargon, and psycho-babble or intimidated by emotional blackmail.
There's a tightrope to walk between honesty and hysteria, emotional blackness and emotional blackmail.
In other words, we can't afford to properly police copyright laws so we'll try and use emotional blackmail to keep people in line.
I have enough of my own guilt, without this emotional blackmail!
In cases of forced marriage the force can be emotional blackmail or other forms of psychological pressure.

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