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

The racketeers, known to Tin Pan Alley as the "song sharks," mulct their victims�amateur songwriters�for amounts up to $100 apiece.

From Time Magazine Archive

Foes of stock speculation claim that a few insiders deceive and mulct the public.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was something, beside the thought of Fan’s reclaiming him, that vexed him far more than the fear of any mulct.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne