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
Cleve was very near giving this unconscionable old extortioner a bit of his mind, and ordering him out of the house on the instant.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
She too, perhaps, had hoped to play the part of extortioner.
From The Golden Web by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Wherever he could get his hands on a speculator or extortioner, he shook him up.
From Stories Of Georgia by Joel Chandler Harris
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