Crossword-Solution: EXTORTS
We have 14 clues for the answer “EXTORTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Employs kompromat to control, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Makes pay, in a bad way | 1 answer |
| Obtains through coercion | 1 answer |
| Obtains via coercion, as money | 1 answer |
| Shakes down | 1 answer |
| Tries to shake down | 1 answer |
| Uses muscle to get | 1 answer |
| Wrests from. | 1 answer |
| Wrings from. | 1 answer |
| Blackmails | 2 answers |
| Bleeds | 2 answers |
| Gouges | 3 answers |
| Coerces | 4 answers |
| Takes by force | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXTORTS (5)
That he may avoid this, a sensitive writer is often put to his shifts, and extorts, if he be fortunate, a triumph from the accident of his encumbrance.
The only quality of theirs which extorts my respect is a certain sublime selfishness which makes them willing to starve and to let their families starve sooner than do any work they don’t like.” “INDEED you are quite wrong, Sidney.
Wilt thou impute to obedience what thy fear Extorts, or pleasure to do ill excites? What but thy malice mov'd thee to misdeem Of righteous Job, then cruelly to afflict him With all inflictions, but his patience won? The other service was thy chosen task, To be a lyer in four hundred mouths; For lying is thy sustenance, thy food.
When such a spirit breaks forth into complaint, however brief, we are aware how great must be the suffering that extorts the murmur.
And it so happens that he not only refuses this, but he is said to be inimical to the whole new order of things.--In this dilemma the peasant falls back upon his usual resource, the strength of his arms; he seizes the priest by the throat, as formerly his lord, and extorts an acquittance for his sins as formerly for his feudal dues.
Quotes with EXTORTS (1)
But in Hebrew scripture David is not just the “sweet singer of Israel,” the chiseled poet who plays a harp and composes the Psalms. After he makes his name by killing Goliath, David recruits a gang of guerrillas, extorts wealth from his fellow citizens at swordpoint, and fights as a mercenary for the Philistines. These achievements make Saul jealous: the women in his court are singing, “Saul has killed by the thousands, but David by the tens of thousands.” So Saul plots to ha…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1957–2016).