mulct
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Time Warner figured it could mulct the other pay-TV companies for every last dime because, really, what TV service would dare not carry the Dodgers, whatever the price?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2022
“Existing at the pleasure of the advertisers, to mulct the public, gratifying their stupidity, and render some small advance on investment to the owners, offering putative employment to their etiolated, wastrel sons.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2018
The racketeers, known to Tin Pan Alley as the "song sharks," mulct their victims�amateur songwriters�for amounts up to $100 apiece.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shrewd, he realized early that complete liberty to mulct the devotees of chance would never be given him under the laws of a land so large as Germany.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wife escapes exposure; and the 'other party' is only mulct to one-fourth of his liability, and at the same time is exempt from all the ruffianism of the long robe!
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James
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