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

By hook and crook, he manages to mulct $3,000,000 in hush money.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fortnight ago the League of New York Theatres, Inc., six months in forming, got into motion against the Broadway ticket-speculators who annually mulct theatre-goers of thousands of dollars.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the "Brehon" law or custom, every crime, however enormous, was punished, not with death, but by a fine or pecuniary mulct, which was levied upon the criminal.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by Hume, David