sextort

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verb

To coerce through the threat of revealing someone's sexual history.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verbsextort (third-person singular simple present sextorts, present participle sextorting, simple past and past participle sextorted)

present singular third person sextorts · participle present sextorting · participle past sextorted · past sextorted

  1. informaltransitiveTo coerce through the threat of revealing someone's sexual history.

    Several of my clients were sextorted by former partners who threatened to distribute their target's naked images or videos unless the women returned to the relationships or acquiesced to the offenders' demands for sex.

    2019, Carrie Goldberg, Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs and Trolls
    1 more example

    On the evening of February 7, Jeff Bezos announced that he had been sextorted. The Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner didn’t use the term in his bombshell Medium post, in which he accused the National Enquirer and its parent company, American Media Inc., of blackmailing him with “intimate photos” that he had taken of himself.

    2019 February 11, Quinta Jurecic, “A Turning Point for Sextortion”, in The Atlantic

Origin

Translations

Polish szantażować seksualnie
  • szantażować seksualnieTranslations
Spanish sextorsionar
  • sextorsionarTranslations
Vietnamese tống tình
  • tống tìnhTranslations
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APA

sextort. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sextort

MLA

“sextort.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sextort. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sextort,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sextort.

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