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exorbitant |
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exorbitant Adjective (of prices, demands, etc.) excessively great or high: an exorbitant rent [Latin ex out, away + orbita track] exorbitantly adv
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exorbitant adjective excessive, high, expensive, extreme, ridiculous, outrageous, extravagant, unreasonable, undue, preposterous, unwarranted, inordinate, extortionate, unconscionable, immoderate << OPPOSITE reasonable Translations (demands) → maßlos, übertrieben |
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I was far from expecting ever to belong to him, for the price asked for me from the time I was first enslaved was exorbitant, and always provoked either anger or derision, yet my master stuck stubbornly to it -- twenty-two dollars. (heaven knows it is not exorbitant in its requirements Mynheer Boxtel went to the headsman, to whom he gave himself out as a great friend of the condemned man; and from whom he bought all the clothes of the dead man that was to be, for one hundred guilders; rather an exorbitant sum, as he engaged to leave all the trinkets of gold and silver to the executioner. |
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