kompromat
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.67 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian компрома́т (kompromát), short for компромети́рующий материа́л (komprometírujuščij materiál, “compromising material”). Soviet security service slang from the Stalin era.
Usage
Inflected Forms
kompromats (plural)
compromat (alternative)