Crossword-Solution: EXTORTED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Extorted | imp. & p. p. | of Extort |
We have 9 clues for the answer “EXTORTED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Demanded a ransom, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Obtained by threat | 1 answer |
| Obtained via force | 1 answer |
| Obtained, as protection money | 1 answer |
| Took by threat | 1 answer |
| Wrested by force. | 1 answer |
| Blackmailed | 2 answers |
| A COMPOUND OBTAINED FROM | 10 answers |
| Demanded | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXTORTED (5)
But Richard’s good intentions towards the bold Outlaw were frustrated by the King’s untimely death; and the Charter of the Forest was extorted from the unwilling hands of King John when he succeeded to his heroic brother.
And if she really cares for you----" "I extorted that from her." "Well, then, you must look at it in the best light you can.
Disappointed, however, and vexed as she was, and sometimes displeased with his uncertain behaviour to herself, she was very well disposed on the whole to regard his actions with all the candid allowances and generous qualifications, which had been rather more painfully extorted from her, for Willoughby’s service, by her mother.
Sometimes he extorted money from her by this means, but as often as not he did it for his own satisfaction.
Rowland could not say to himself that if the promises had been extorted for Mary Garland’s sake, his present attention to them was equally disinterested; and so he had to admit that he was indeed faint-hearted.
Quotes with EXTORTED (3)
Rising up, rising down! History shambles on! What are we left with? A few half-shattered Greek stelae; Trotsky's eyeglasses; Gandhi's native-spun cloth, Cortes' pieces of solid gold (extorted from their original owner, Montezuma); a little heap of orange peels left on the table by the late Robespierre; John Brown's lengthily underlined letters; Lenin's bottles of invisible ink; one of Di Giovanni's suitcases, with an iron cylinder of gelignite and two glass tubes of acid insi…
To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reforme…
He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting “it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.” His majesty, in another audience, was at the pains to recapitulate the sum of all I had spoken; compared the quest…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1967–2019).