extortioner
Example Sentences
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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
No! we find his actions narrowed down to the sordidness of the miser, the avariciousness of the extortioner.
From The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Abrams, Alex St. Clair
Bessas was as great an extortioner as Konstantinos.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
He is a thorough type of an easy-going scoundrel, extortioner, and spendthrift.
From Judith Trachtenberg A Novel by Franzos, Karl Emil
