Extortioner (Noun)
Meaning
A criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The extortioner had been blackmailing the businessman for months, threatening to reveal his secret affair to the press unless he paid up.
- The police finally caught the extortioner who had been terrorizing the local community, demanding money from residents in exchange for keeping their darkest secrets hidden.
- As the extortioner's demands for money grew more aggressive, the victim realized she had to go to the authorities before things escalated further.
- The extortioner's modus operandi was to dig up dirt on his targets and then use that information to coerce them into paying him hush money.
- After being threatened by the extortioner, the celebrity felt like her whole world was crashing down around her, and she didn't know how to escape the situation.