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Criminal's old mate wrong - 10 isn't being clobbered
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extortionist
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Word definitions for extortionist in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1824, from extortion + -ist . Earlier in the same sense were extorter (1590s), extortioner (late 14c.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
extortionist \ex*tor"tion*ist\, n. One who practices extortion. Syn: extortioner. [PJC]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Someone who extorts; an extortioner.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them [syn: blackmailer , extortioner ]
Usage examples of extortionist.
As incredible as it seems to the outside world, they want a convicted extortionist to be their mayor again.
Frizzy Hair shed the friendly-persuader image in favor of extortionist, grade 1.
One may have been a thief, an extortionist, or only an irate creditor for all I know.
He could begin to see his big neighbor not as an extortionist but as a powerful protector of their common interests.
I said the letter was written in a businesslike fashion and at some points the extortionist could not fully disguise himself.
In turn, Bernie Ballantyne might have erroneously figured Maizie Murdock as the extortionist and made the grave mistake of cooling her.
Patricia McColm, the dentist, the class-action extortionists, and other bullies might have to compensate those of us they sued.
Of the extortionists--they were no better than extortionists, although they had been attempting to work on an international plane--had been caught, those who had not drowned when the submarine sank.
Specific orders had come from the foreign extortionists to keep us out of it, and that was what Nanny Hanks was trying to do.
Seated with his back to the wall of the low-ceilinged, crowded tavern, Gruntle looked out with narrowed eyes on a motley collection of murderers, extortionists and thugs whose claim to power was measured in fear.
If they are just ordinary extortionists, they will demand money for themselves personally.
If our own government had not been in the pocket of Jew creditors and extortionists, and so fearful of the proletariat itself, which was forever whining, forever demanding, malcontents who despised the natural social order, then perhaps the world would have had a very different and glorious future.
The Japanese Yakuza, the Mafia, all the terrorists and extortionists in the world know different.
If they are just ordinary extortionists, they will demand money for themselves personally.
If our own government had not been in the pocket of Jew creditors and extortionists, and so fearful of the proletariat itself, which was forever whining, forever demanding, malcontents who despised the natural social order, then perhaps the world would have had a very different and glorious future.