extortioner
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The Indians and the poor appealed to the church, and Mexico's archbishop put the extortioner under a ban of excommunication.
From Time Magazine Archive
In an "emergency" broadcast, Wagner charged that "one of the most important men in the U.S." had attempted to spring Joey Fay, a notorious labor extortioner, from Sing Sing Prison.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is not described as an extortioner or unjust.
From The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles by Wilmot-Buxton, H. J.
To fall into the hands of an extortioner is always a terrible thing, but to have a mechanical extortioner hold power over me; there was a horror beyond words in this perversity.
From The Brain by Blade, Alexander
The apostle Paul directed that Christians should not eat with an extortioner.
From Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) by Griffiths, Julia
