kompromat

Definitions

Compromising material, blackmail material, (real or fabricated) evidence that a person does not want revealed, dirt.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Many observers have⟳ commented that, with so many Russian newspapers and TV channels now controlled by oligarchs or powerful organisations, kompromat is now a regular feature in the supposedly independent press⟳.”

“If your car has a bunch of data that's useful to stalkers, it's only because the car manufacturers have⟳ turned cars into rolling surveillance platforms that spy on their drivers constantly […] If Big Car is worried that used vehicles are full of nonconsensually collected kompromat, maybe they could, you know⟳, just stop⟳ collecting all that data?”

“This could mean⟳ that the most powerful men involved in the scandal are good at intimidating accusers. But it could also mean⟳ Epstein really was just following his own⟳ perversions, not catering to (or gathering kompromat on) his wealthy friends.”

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