Adjective : extortionate prices. ,extortionate moneylenders. From Dictionary.com.
It accuses him of charging "extortionate" prices for his multivitamin tablets. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Ms Stern was forced out after she voiced strong internal objections to the volte-face and the deal, calling it "extortionate", "outrageous" and "against the public interest". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
The charity said the firm's "extortionate" interest rates. From Wordnik.com. [Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk] Reference
High street money lenders slammed for 'extortionate' 260\% loans. From Wordnik.com. [Quit Smoking Tobacco] Reference
Travellers cite 'extortionate' demands from resorts after Conquest collapse. From Wordnik.com. [Toronto Sun] Reference
The authority said lenders charge "extortionate" rates of interest on loans. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The AA has criticised the 'extortionate' charge, yesterday calling Citywatch Parking. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
But while O'Neill wants to add further players in this transfer window, he has warned he will not pay "extortionate" prices. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Germany to Christmas via Paris, were forced to pay for an "extortionate" hotel after they were turned away from the station. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
It does nothing to solve problems such as extortionate late fees, high interest charges and extending credit indiscriminately. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to JPMorgan Chase drops controversial arbitration clause from credit card contracts] Reference
She said her group welcomed any measures that encouraged firms to employ people more flexibly or helped with the "extortionate" cost of childcare. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
Provident Financial's rise in profits was a cue for Barnardo's, the children's charity, to call for an inquiry into doorstep lenders and their "extortionate" rates of interest. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to U of Minn. approves $240 million building list] Reference
BRITAIN'S stricken banks are clawing back billions of pounds lost in the credit crunch by squeezing personal customers with "extortionate" banking fees and higher interest rates. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
We circulate every town and extortionate not for advertisements. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920] Reference
These were great demands, and were regarded as extortionate and oppressive. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
"To have priests 'eyes," meaning to be covetous or extortionate, is another. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
Often the man who is the most mean in buying is the most extortionate in selling. From Wordnik.com. [Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope] Reference
There were three years to run and the rent was not extortionate -- for the times. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.] Reference
On the 8th those extortionate men of Wadi al Ain sent to say they would take us by the. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
Isn't stickiness even slightly extortionate stickiness what these Google services aim for?. From Wordnik.com. [Google and the Search for the Future] Reference
This shabby and extortionate kind of protest against subdivision has long obtained on certain estates. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
An expressman had charged me what was really an extortionate sum for bringing out a carriage from the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
As they fell back, fur traders and merchants followed them with professions of regard and extortionate prices. From Wordnik.com. [Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41] Reference
When they reigned over us, they oppressed our principal men, and laid heavy and extortionate burdens upon the land. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
Forced to hire gunmen to guard themselves and their supplies, workers face extortionate demands for money and food. From Wordnik.com. [Battlefields Of The Food War] Reference
That competition among producers is the sole present protection of the public against extortionate prices is undoubted. From Wordnik.com. [Monopolies and the People] Reference
At the same time, contrary to what you seem to think, federal taxes are not extortionate by modern historical standards. From Wordnik.com. [Advice for the 'Poor Rich'] Reference
Montreal began to be the worst city in America for high rents, extortionate charges for moving and intolerable congestion. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Although the resolution was out of keeping with the spirit of the movement, it seemed proper to pay this extortionate price for. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
The property of Bill Sikes had for a long time been coveted by his white neighbors, but even extortionate offers had been refused. From Wordnik.com. [Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.] Reference
The interest exacted by the princes and nobles was no doubt so extortionate that it could be called usury in the modern legal sense. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
A too respectable dress, a thoughtless expression, the malice of an extortionate workman, or the offending of a servant, meant death. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
She anchored only long enough to offer some sorely needed provisions at such extortionate prices that the colonists could not buy them. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference
Fraser wrote in 1797, but an income of only £20 a year from the mills does not indicate any extortionate exercise of seigniorial rights. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
The feeble rule of the German kings compelled the cities to form several confederacies for the purpose of resisting the extortionate tolls and downright robberies of feudal lords. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
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