- a variation of extortionist.
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
To fall into the hands of an extortioner is always a terrible thing, but to have a mechanical extortioner hold power over me; there was a horror beyond words in this perversity.
From The Brain by Alexander Blade
If the mamálacha be received, the case is hopeless; and indeed the custom of the country requires that the extortioner should be never met with a negative.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
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
