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Extortioner

noun

A criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them. Synonyms: blackmailer, extortionist.

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"Extortioner" Quotes from Famous Books

... good," said the grandmother. "And that will count up more to his credit than if he was an extortioner, and ill-treated the ...

— Old Caravan Days • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... long queues of waiting patrons in front of the butcher shops during the first few days of my sojourn very soon disappeared when people learned that they could be sure of getting meat of one sort or another, and at a price fixed by law; which was a good thing too, seeing that thereby the extortioner and the profiteer lost their chances to gain unduly through the necessities of the populace. So far as I was able to ascertain, nobody on the island actually suffered—except the present writer of these lines; and he suffered chiefly because ...

— Eating in Two or Three Languages • Irvin S. Cobb

Words linked to "Extortioner" : outlaw, crook, blackmailer, criminal, malefactor, felon, extortionist