Witherow defended the use of blagging and subterfuge in the public interest.

In Britain, media industry sources said, blagging is usually illegal.

I got out of the blagging habit for a while.

I feel like I'm blagging it, to be honest.

I want to see plenty of blagging, loads of bumphing, and a good bit of blatching.

So I look very kindly on blagging.

Documents and a phone recording suggest "blagging" was used to obtain private financial and property details.

Even legitimate customers are blagging it inside their own heads -to become someone more fabulous than they really are.

Looking at these methods, it seems likely that many, but not all, ex-directory numbers could have been obtained by blagging .

Being an experienced blagger, I thought I would clean up, but it turned out Hollywood blagging requires a bit more finesse.

The famous after parties... and the art of blagging Naomie says she loves a party but she's not the queen of blagging.

Many of the paparazzi tried to bribe their way into the wedding, blagging that they were part of the orchestra and band.

Two private investigators have appeared in court charged with allegedly 'blagging' personal information on a number of individuals from both the De(...)

The last Labour government passed legislation allowing a two-year jail sentence to be introduced for blagging, but this section of the Act was never implemented.

The deputy prime minister also suggested the law be changed so journalists and investigators could be jailed for "blagging" -obtaining personal information by deception.

Blagging your way past some PR girl on the door of a museum was one thing.