extortioner

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them

From extortion + -er.

Landlords; a pitiless and unpitiable tribe; all griping extortioners! — McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader, William Holmes McGuffey
This is a country of extortioners and extortion from strangers. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson
[277] The Lætorian Law was a security for those under age against extortioners, etc. — Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth, Marcus Tullius Cicero

blackmailer, extortionist

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