- a variation of extortionist.
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
Why is a retired actor like an extortioner?
From The Handbook of Conundrums by Edith B. Ordway
If the mamálacha be received, the case is hopeless; and indeed the custom of the country requires that the extortioner should be never met with a negative.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
How, then, did David Arden, who hated a swindle, answer the old extortioner, who asked him, “Do you like my offer?”
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
