extortioner

How To Use extortioner In A Sentence

• His later attempts to revise tax-assessments and improve the efficiency of their collection soon won him the reputation of an extortioner.
• A kite, a glead, a puttock; alfo a greedy extortioner; a kind of flying fiflj. Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, B
• On the contrary, It is written: “If thou lend money to any of myb people that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor oppress them with usuries.” The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
• The crowd was dismayed, because tax collectors were stereotyped as ‘rapacious extortioners.’
• 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor oppress them with usuries. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
• Whoever was not a klepht was the victim of some official extortioner. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• But the cure hoping to recall the extortioner to something like The Honor of the Name
• Nor thieves , nor covetous , nor drunkards , nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
• According to the reports, many of these extortioners are recently released prisoners.