extortioner

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extortioner
Noun
  • In those times, young people who self-described as gangsters fought for territory, and one of their subversive acts was to tag the walls of the city with the verses of cumbia songs.
    Karla Gachet, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The gangster drama began airing on BBC Two in the UK in 2013, and debuted on Netflix a year later.
    Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Girls were there and there were guys that were really extra on some thug, some goon sh*t.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • We’re then introduced to Louie, a thug who works for a loan shark, threatening and killing people.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These kinds of sweeping outages are typically the result either of ransomware attacks, where online extortionists paralyse corporate networks in the hope of payment, or deliberate sabotage.
    Reuters, NBC news, 20 Sep. 2025
  • These kinds of sweeping outages are typically the result either of ransomware attacks, where online extortionists paralyze corporate networks in the hope of payment, or deliberate digital sabotage.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Despite paying off blackmailers and marrying Lady Olivia Hedges (Danielle Galligan) to protect his secret, Arthur still loses his father’s Parliament seat after getting caught committing election fraud.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In a police photograph, Lansky stood next to racketeer Charles (Lucky) Luciano.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
  • In the other corner: Vito Genovese, Costello’s childhood friend and fellow racketeer, who had to leave town long ago because of a thing, and has now come home to resume his place in the Mafia hierarchy.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Extortioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extortioner. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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