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  • verb Present participle of blag.

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Examples

  • People found guilty of obtaining personal details by deception - known as "blagging" - should be jailed, Deputy PM Nick Clegg has said.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Well, as of writing this e-mail David Cameron is standing by his press adviser Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor linked today with allegations that reporters on his former newspaper may have been involved in a pattern of telephone bugging and "blagging" - in effect, lying - to obtain stories.

    BBC Blog Network 2009

  • One of the features of this piece of legalized nation-blagging is that the EU will have the ability to make all sorts of amendments to the Constitution, including the abolition of vetoes, without having to bother with the inconvenience of getting everyone’s consent to anything so tricky as a new Treaty.

    William's Best Laid Plans 2007

  • One of the features of this piece of legalized nation-blagging is that the EU will have the ability to make all sorts of amendments to the Constitution, including the abolition of vetoes, without having to bother with the inconvenience of getting everyone’s consent to anything so tricky as a new Treaty.

    Archive 2007-09-30 2007

  • As well as phone hacking, the notes referred to "blagging", obtaining information by deception.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph James Kirkup 2011

  • The Sunday Times has argued the story was in the public interest, and therefore obtaining information by deceit - or "blagging" - was defensible.

    The Seattle Times 2012

  • The Sunday Times has argued the story was in the public interest, and therefore obtaining information by deceit - or "blagging" - was defensible.

    www.startribune.com 2012

  • As well as phone hacking, the notes referred to "blagging", obtaining information by deception.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph James Kirkup 2011

  • He described some of the "dark arts" he had been told of by tabloid reporters, including burglary, phone and email hacking and "blagging" - obtaining information by deceit.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Jill Lawless 2011

  • He described some of the "dark arts" he had been told of by tabloid reporters, including burglary, phone and email hacking and "blagging" - obtaining information by deceit.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Jill Lawless 2011

  • In it, she expressed regret that she didn’t have the resources to pursue the tabloid further, to a full trial, and restated her belief in its guilt; Miller alleges that the Sun obtained details of her pregnancy via illegal subterfuge, the so-called “blagging” of medical records from her doctor’s office by pretending to be one of her reps.

    Sienna Miller on taking on the tabloids: ‘It was so toxic – what women were subjected to’ Emma Brockes 2022

  • The Observer understands the claims made by each group member carry around five pages of allegations relating to hacking and blagging – obtaining personal information illegally – and around 20 pages outlining allegations of concealment and destruction of evidence.

    Prince Harry: tabloids hid hacking crimes for 20 years Jamie Doward 2019

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