- a variation of extortionist.
extortioner
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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
There she will ever find a shelter, for there the extortioner rules not.
From The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Alex St. Clair Abrams
It vexed him to think of submitting to the avarice of that wicked old extortioner; but to that submission, reluctant as he is, it seems probable he will come.
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Had he been frank, I might have broken the extortioner, but he was not frank.
From Northwest! by Harold Bindloss
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