extortionist
noun
a person who engages in extortion.
extortioner
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a variation of
extortionist.
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a word derived from
extortion.
Example Sentences
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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
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
He is a thorough type of an easy-going scoundrel, extortioner, and spendthrift.
From Judith Trachtenberg A Novel by Karl Emil Franzos
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath: and let the strangers spoil his labor.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
How, then, did David Arden, who hated a swindle, answer the old extortioner, who asked him, “Do you like my offer?”
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
