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Lending at extortionate rates
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usurious
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Word definitions for usurious in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Usurious \U*su"ri*ous\ (?; 277), a. [From Usury .] Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person. Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract. [1913 Webster] -- U*su"ri*ous*ly ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The wolfish landlord used this chance to demand the usurious compound interest of 50% for three years.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to usury. 2 exorbitant.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usorious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending" [syn: exorbitant , extortionate , outrageous , steep , unconscionable ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from usury + -ous . Related: Usuriously .
Usage examples of usurious.
Diego Silang, a tao, led his brother taos in rebellion against their usurious mestizo oppressors,--and was murdered for his pains.
Our law does not penalize the act of requiring usurious terms of interest.
He had begun life as an obscure financier by lending small sums of money to workmen at usurious interest.
The Archbishop, therefore, denounced this new method of usurious traffic, and hinted further that to it was due the fierce rebellion which had for a while plunged Florence into the horrors of the Jacquerie.
Besieged by solicitations for products and services we neither want nor need, misrepresented and misgoverned by corrupt politicians beholden to multinational megacorporations, and reduced to involuntary servitude by usurious financial institutions, we are not so much consumers as we are in danger of being consumed.
Prautch, examining the cases of fifty-one complaints against usurious landlords in San Ildefonso, found that "Article 8," above cited, was unknown either to lender or to borrowers, and that no attempt had ever been made to apply it in any loan on produce made by any one to any one.
Neatly doubled sums told him the Pension Fund repayment rate: a usurious 50%.