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

In his action we find no Christianity—no benevolence; nothing but the spirit of the extortioner is here manifested.

From The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Abrams, Alex St. Clair

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath: and let the strangers spoil his labor.

From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles

Exact′ment; Exact′ness, quality of being exact: accuracy; Exact′or, -er, one who exacts: an extortioner: one who claims rights, often too strictly:—fem.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various