extorting
敲诈勒索,敲诈,勒索,敲诈性
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- : Law. to wrest or wring from a person by violence, intimidation, or abuse of authority; obtain by force, torture, threat, or the like.to take illegally by reason of one's office.
- : to compel of a person or thing: Her wit and intelligence extorted their admiration.
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By the 1980s, agents learned that he was supervising a street crew that specialized in extorting well-off business owners.
In the middle of the year, a swelling wave of cryptocurrency scams invoked the coronavirus to extort or blackmail people.
Falwell claims Liberty damaged his reputation, alleging the university accepted without verifying what he called false statements made by a man who had an affair with Falwell’s wife and attempted to extort the couple, according to the complaint.
Many of these bribes happened at makeshift roadblocks set up by SARS officers in order to extort drivers and passengers.
In discussions monitored by the FBI, the hackers said they had hoped to extort $4 million from Tesla via the plot.
Kellner was also charged with attempting to extort the Lebovits family.
Or a stranger willing to let you use their cellphone to call your family might save their number and use it to extort them later.
What Republicans will attempt to extort from the White House will be decided at their retreat in January.
They say he tried to extort more money from them on the way out of Syria, but Mousa engaged him angrily in Arabic.
Instead, it would rather sabotage the game and try to extort its way to a victory.
One day some commissioners called at her cell, hoping to extort from her the secret of her husband's retreat.
In reality, Alleyn wanted to extort a larger rental than £14 for the property, which had greatly increased in value.
His prisoners were tied up and beaten with naked cutlasses in order to extort information about their concealed hoards.