extortioner , also: extortionist , also: extorter

"And I'm sure you gave the extortioner a very rough time in every instance.

Bartley told the story of his interview with an unknown extortioner.

Something discordant, as if a secret struggle were going on inside the master extortioner.

The extortioner does not practise in the home.

He had no quarrel with the honest money-lender, only the unscrupulous extortioner.

"I renounce all other gods," the boss extortioner gasped between sobs.

Subsequent events might confirm Riker's guilt as a cunning extortioner.

One to destroy the extortioner as soon as he declared himself, and the other to take away the body and dispose of it by night.

But the oppressed must have arms wherewith to smite the tyrant, the extortioner, the relentless task-master of the poor.

Whoever the million-dollar extortioner was, his henchman was Sam Romine!

Now the two, Anti and Cardif, who had been partners for decades, faced each other as enemies: the extortioner and the extorted.

A quick tour through Nugent's house showed it to be empty of any sign of a clue to the identity of the unknown extortioner or his assistant.

John Gibbons (extortioner), circa 1690, a porter of Whitehall Palace and a 'pursuer of coiners'.

Your homes shall be safe from the kidnaper; your businesses shall be safe from the extortioner and his skulking aid, the dynamiter.

'Con' Shea In Law's Toils As An Extortioner."

Woes for Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner could be disciplined by major league baseball if he was using an alleged extortioner to discredit Dave Winfield.

"While the other is Ilala, priestess of the like-named goddess, with whom I had some commerce when I was lieutenant to Pulg the extortioner," the Mouser whispered back.

The character of London extortioner and gangland boss Alec Spindoe (played by Ray McAnally) first appeared in several episodes of Granada TV's serial The Fellows.

Fledgeby is an extortioner and money-lender, who uses the kindly old Jew, Riah, as his cover, temporarily causing Riah to fall out with his friend and protégée Jenny Wren.

Then he sprang to Pulg, sweeping his left hand in a dramatic arc as if conveying something from the naked god to the extortioner, and lightly placed the golden bauble in the supplicating fingers of the latter.

For example, in 1930, the ADL was able to persuade Roget's Thesaurus to remove an objectionable portion from its pages: it has defined "Jew" as synonymous with "cunning, rich, usurer, extortioner, heretic."

Felton only expressed, with regard to the duke, the feeling of execration which all the English had declared toward him whom the Catholics themselves called the extortioner, the pillager, the debauchee, and whom the Puritans styled simply Satan.

To The Shadow, this seemed the strangest angle of the whole affair: Why had an unknown extortioner felt so safe in luring Hanson Bartley to the home of Dwight Nugent in order to make his criminal demand?

The Mouser would have liked to punch Pulg in the middle of the jeweled vizard which the extortioner was just now again lifting to his face - punch his fat nose and fly this madhouse of commanded commandings.

And a sound reason, also, for sending Rannilt away out of the house so that she herself, and none but she, should fetch in the washing, or have any other occasion to go down to the riverside, where she had left the extortioner dead.' '