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View synonyms for extortionist

extortionist

or ex·tor·tion·er

[ ik-stawr-shuh-nist ]

noun

  1. a person who engages in extortion.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of extortionist1

First recorded in 1880–85; extortion + -ist

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Example Sentences

There have been reports of a city, often suggested to be in Brazil, having its electricity cut off by extortionist hackers.

The lawyers accused Stephens of being an “extortionist” and handed him his own criminal background report, he said.

Driver an extortionist; but I knew the exact distance, to the tenth of a kilometre.

Nor do I think anything in her own life would give a blackmailer or an extortionist anything to go on.

More often, it is the by product and end result of lobbying, political hand bending and extortionist muscle.

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