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
Wherever he could get his hands on a speculator or extortioner, he shook him up.
From Stories Of Georgia by Joel Chandler Harris
Why is a retired actor like an extortioner?
From The Handbook of Conundrums by Edith B. Ordway
We know of none half so likely to succeed, as the country extortioner and the country usurer!
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
