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
Exact′ment; Exact′ness, quality of being exact: accuracy; Exact′or, -er, one who exacts: an extortioner: one who claims rights, often too strictly:—fem.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The man, to his astonishment, said, "Well, there is your money;" and not having the face to play the extortioner further, Alischar pursed the gold, and returned homewards.
From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by L. (Laura) Valentine
She too, perhaps, had hoped to play the part of extortioner.
From The Golden Web by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
