Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who extorts something from another, or makes an extortionate demand or charge; an extortioner.
Wiktionary
- n. someone who extorts; an extortioner
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who practices extortion.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them
Etymologies
- extortion + -ist (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Being an extortionist is the only thing she is good at.”
“In exasperation I called the extortionist office manager and she said if I can pay the rest off before the end of the month she'll drop all of the administrative fees.”
“And at first it's a lot to take in — the blackmail; the $2 million demand; the screenplay weirdness; the revelations that the extortionist was a high-level Emmy-winning producer for CBS; the emergence of Stephanie Birkett, affable on-screen sidekick, as but one of the women; the surfacing of other names, too; claims of a Late Show love nest.”
“The scene where Donovan was captured and forced to admit he was the extortionist was a bit rushed - don't you think?”
“In fact, his extortionist is the one who should be ashamed of himself.”
“If he who helps ailing children is called extortionist, then I am an extortionist," whined Eli Yeshai, Shas 'leading politician, who normally reports to the group's spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.”
“That the conjurer may in any one case have been a fraud and even a kind of extortionist, and in another case a genuine popular religious leader is, from this point of view, of little importance.”
“I was certain, as I surveyed the crowd, one of these sons of bitches was my extortionist.”
“On the afternoon of September 14th, 2009, human rights defender Jesus Tecú Osorio received a telephone call on his personal cell phone from an unidentified extortionist who threatened to kidnap, torture and dismember each of Jesus 'children, one-by-one, if his demands are not met.”
Global Voices in English » Guatemala: The Activism of Massacre Survivor Jesús Tecú
“I would always suspect someone is a writer if I hear them muttering under breath – “I could use that.” - they are either a writer or a extortionist.”
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 212 more...
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 more...
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people (bad)
nouns for bad people / words that describe bad people.
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( people, character, descriptor, noun )culprit, perpetrator, tormentor, swindler, bamboozler, nincompoop, thief, liar, back stabber, vandal, burglar, cheater and 85 more...
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grassdog's Words
schadenfreude, sanguine, nefarious, verisimilitude, antediluvian, salacious, obfuscate, plethora, cacophony, defenestration, vacillate, blasphemy and 478 more...
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nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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Unfamiliar Words
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Bristle, brisk, churl, resign, extortionist, glutton, malcontent, malinger, neophyte, numismatist, philatelist, stowaway and 3 more...
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