extortioner
Example Sentences
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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
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
No! we find his actions narrowed down to the sordidness of the miser, the avariciousness of the extortioner.
From The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Abrams, Alex St. Clair
His men read the "Segelfoss Times" which tells them that all the world rests on their toil, that they are wage slaves, and their employer is an extortioner.
From Knut Hamsun by Larsen, Hanna Astrup
The people manifested their contempt of so despicable an extortioner and flatterer of royalty, not only by words, but by caricatures.
