Extorted is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXTORTED in dictionary:

VERB:
• EXTORT, to obtain something by violence or intimidation
• obtain (something) by force, threats, or other unfair means
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to obtain from a person by violence or intimidation

Words related to EXTORTED

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How to use EXTORTED in a sentence

• The oath to Matilda, it was maintained, had been unwillingly given, and even extorted by force.
• He reformed the representative system in a manner which has extorted praise even from Lord Clarendon.
• I could not recall anything out of which the shadow of a criminal accusation could be extorted, and I returned with willingness and impatience.
• I have extorted a promise to this effect from my own son.
• Whatever might be the issue, he had equally secured his own advantage by the conditions he had extorted from the Emperor.
• It was early discovered that the masters generally were disposed to abuse their power and get from their apprentices all that could by any means be extorted.
• I turned away abruptly from the negro, lest he should also detect the evidence of the weakness extorted by his speech, from the eyes of manhood.
• A conqueror transported entire populations, and extorted from them forced labor, for it was only by human labor that human labor could be relieved.
• I will therefore only mention, that, at length, I extorted a concession from her.
• I could recollect nothing, except the affair of the mysterious trunk, out of which the shadow of a criminal accusation could be extorted.
• The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.
• Sometimes he extorted money from her by this means, but as often as not he did it for his own satisfaction.
• If his courtesy be extorted reluctantly, it is at least extended far.
• The emperor took from his captive the electoral dignity, and extorted from him the most cruel concessions as the ransom for his life.
• The Protestants in Bohemia were quite excited when they heard of the great privileges which their brethren in Hungary, and in the Austrian provinces had extorted from Matthias.
• Matthias had no spirit of toleration in his heart, and every tolerant act he had assented to, had been extorted from him.
• Taylor extorted from the bench, from the jury, and from the old man himself, by calling it a bloody flag.
• He seized all the tenants and cultivators by a sudden and simultaneous attack upon their several villages, and extorted from them a payment of fifty thousand rupees more.
• He extorted from her a secret confession, under the promise that it should always remain strictly secret, and then coolly published it in the government organ.
• His admirable coolness extorted admiration even from his enemies.
• I learned that they all lived, in whole or in part, by the sale of their own children, and the labor of the mothers extorted by the lash.
• But the time drew near, and in spite of all her hints and manoeuvres no invitation had yet been extorted from Adelaide.
• When the king wanted cash, he also extorted it from the Jews.
• Having thus extorted from the enemy a full confession of their being defeated, and having sent home the Rhodians and Eumenes, the Romans steered their course to Chios.
• The rain lashed us in the face and extorted from time to time sad lamentations from the children.
• Love, true love, is divine, and cannot be furnished to order, or extorted by violence.
• King John by cruel measures extorted large sums from wealthy Jews.
• Laden with honors and riches, they turned a deaf ear to all the murmurs which despotism, the most atrocious, extorted from every portion of the empire.
• The recognition of the original national boundaries of the United States had been extorted from Great Britain by successful warfare.

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