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- noun Plural form of
extortioner .
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Examples
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-- - And indeed, should our absurd complaisance to extortioners, that is to traitors, continue but a few weeks longer, we might experience far greater woes than those we could reasonably fear from the combined malice and power of Great-Britain, unassisted by our own rapaciousness or conspiracy.
Observations on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the army, and in the navy of the United States. Antibiastes 1777
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But i think the best way to stopp trieng sameone to extotion you, is going to police. a ebarrassing way, but next time the extortioners whant more money
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Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
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If she was to endorse Obama (which she hasn't), she would be exercising her independence, exactly what the extortioners are demanding.
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Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican; The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
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“O, it is provoking indeed,” cried he, “for the extra-interest I must pay one of those extortioners is absolutely so much money thrown away.”
Cecilia 2008
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For twenty years the working epople have been begging extortioners to introduce the eight-hour day system, but have been put off with promises.
The History of May Day Abhay N 2007
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Amplified Bible: unrighteous and wrongdoers; impure and immoral, idolaters, adulterers, homosexuality, cheats swindlers and thieves, greedy graspers, drunkards, revilers and slanderers, extortioners and robbers
The Volokh Conspiracy » Texas megachurch refuses to bury gay veteran: 2007
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The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
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The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.’
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