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
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 Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
You dare treat Henry Alison as if he were an extortioner, whose word and honor were to be sold for dollars!
From A Hero of the Pen by Werner, E.
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
