Crossword-Solution: EXTORTING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Extorting | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Extort |
We have 2 clues for the answer “EXTORTING”
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| Illegal forcing | 1 answer |
| Avid | 30 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MECZAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EXTORTING (5)
The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.
Throughout the later Middle Ages the Dominicans had been the main agents in extorting and promulgating these revelations, but in the centuries following the Reformation the Jesuits devoted themselves with even more keenness and vigour to the same task.
Dwyer certainly succeeded in extorting, I cannot say how, considerable and advantageous leases from Colonel O'Mara; but after his death he disposed of his interest in these, and having for a time launched into a sea of profligate extravagance, he became bankrupt, and for a long time I totally lost sight of him.
Isidore Fortunat’s debtors, a man whom he often visited in the hope of extorting some trifling amount from him, and who was employed in the Central office of the Paris Cab Company.
The avarice of the officers had saved 400 of the richest citizens, in the hope of extorting from them an exorbitant ransom.
Quotes with EXTORTING (1)
With inheritances, it's really important not to give the impression that you're extorting your children, and one way you can not do that is to make it clear to them that you're not leaving the whole of your estate to them at all, but to various charitable organizations.
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).