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
Had he been frank, I might have broken the extortioner, but he was not frank.
From Northwest! by Bindloss, Harold
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.
How, then, did David Arden, who hated a swindle, answer the old extortioner, who asked him, “Do you like my offer?”
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
