Meanings (ES + gloss)
extorsivo
Of, related to, or typifying extortion (“the practice of obtaining money or other property by the use of force or threats”).
English travellers who have visited Jerash may remember a handsome but extortionate and insolent Arab sheikh at Sûf, who demanded, and always with success, an extortionate sum as b…
It is said the daily increase in opium is owing to the negligence of officers in enforcing the interdicts? The laws and enactments are the means which extortionate underlings and w…
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