mulct

Example Sentences

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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

Subsequent toasts to le cheval, Vane and le mulct were capped, of course, by the final and inevitable "A la Belle France!"

From Time Magazine Archive

In Savannah, Captain Carter's successor began an investigation resulting in charges that he had conspired with the harbor contractors to mulct the Government, by shoddy work and extravagant prices, of some $1,800,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

An evil result from the public point of view followed from the system of atoning for crime by pecuniary mulct.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various