Extortioner

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who extorts; an extortionist.

    "But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be […] an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."

  2. 2
    a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them wordnet

Synonyms

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blackmailerblackmailerbloodsuckerextorterextortionist

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"But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be […] an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."

Etymology

From extortion + -er.

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