- a variation of extortionist.
extortioner
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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
We know of none half so likely to succeed, as the country extortioner and the country usurer!
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
Bessas was as great an extortioner as Konstantinos.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
They are like a bankrupt in the hands of an extortioner.
From No Treason, Vol. VI. The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner
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