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

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

With his soft, eager voice he had been telling his chief that the German and French miners of potash were about to mulct the U. S. farmer who needs their soluble potashes for fertilizers.

From Time Magazine Archive

For what man in his senses who, for an annual mulct of half-a-dozen sovereigns, commands the whole range of modern literature, would waste his substance in loading his house with books of doubtful interest?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various