- 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
Bessas was as great an extortioner as Konstantinos.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
He had fixed her price as fifty aurei, and Menecreta had saved just one half that amount when fate and the vengeance of the populace overtook the extortioner.
From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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 Hanna Astrup Larsen
