extortioner
Example Sentences
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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
She too, perhaps, had hoped to play the part of extortioner.
From The Golden Web by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Why is a retired actor like an extortioner?
From The Handbook of Conundrums by Ordway, Edith B.
It vexed him to think of submitting to the avarice of that wicked old extortioner; but to that submission, reluctant as he is, it seems probable he will come.
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
