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usurious

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u·su·ri·ous  (y-zhr-s)
adj.
1. Practicing usury.
2. Of or constituting usury: usurious interest rates.
u·suri·ous·ly adv.
u·suri·ous·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.usurioususurious - greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending"
exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable
immoderate - beyond reasonable limits; "immoderate laughter"; "immoderate spending"
Translations
usurious [juːˈzjʊərɪəs] ADJ → usurario
usurious
adj → wucherisch; person → Wucher treibend attr; usurious price → Wucherpreis m


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Every debt he owed in the world, including the pawnshop, with its usurious interest, amounted to less than a hundred dollars.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
To maintain these retainers, and to support the extravagance and magnificence which their pride induced them to affect, the nobility borrowed sums of money from the Jews at the most usurious interest, which gnawed into their estates like consuming cankers, scarce to be cured unless when circumstances gave them an opportunity of getting free, by exercising upon their creditors some act of unprincipled violence.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
As to her money, she first secreted it in odd corners, wrapped in a rag or an old curl-paper; but some of these hoards having been discovered by the housemaid, Eliza, fearful of one day losing her valued treasure, consented to intrust it to her mother, at a usurious rate of interest--fifty or sixty per cent.
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
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