extortioner
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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
Exact′ment; Exact′ness, quality of being exact: accuracy; Exact′or, -er, one who exacts: an extortioner: one who claims rights, often too strictly:—fem.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Bessas was as great an extortioner as Konstantinos.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
He is not described as an extortioner or unjust.
From The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles by Wilmot-Buxton, H. J.
