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Adjective : a usurious moneylender. ,usurious rates of interest; a usurious loan. From Dictionary.com.
The tears in her voice were the payment of what must be called a usurious speculation of love. From Wordnik.com. [The Lily of the Valley] Reference
They are being charged "usurious" interest rates because the government has caused interest rates to rise to control inflation. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the editor: Dec 1995] Reference
Desperate companies turn to 'usurious' hedge funds (hedge funds goes loan-shark). From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
He called the higher rates "usurious," and the second avalanche an avoidable mistake. From Wordnik.com. [JuneauEmpire.com] Reference
One of the favorite claims of payday lending opponents is that payday loans are "usurious". From Wordnik.com. [Blogger News Network] Reference
London Citizens, an alliance of religious leaders and civic groups in the capital, has been campaigning for a cap on "usurious" rates of commercial lending. From Wordnik.com. [Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk] Reference
• Twin Rivers Middle School student Stephen Jenkins, eliminated on "usurious". From Wordnik.com. [Gwinnett Daily Post Headlines] Reference
The latter alone was henceforth prohibited as usurious. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The price will not be usurious, but it will allow us a profit. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
She was blatantly usurious, she reminded me of M in many ways. From Wordnik.com. [kevynwight Diary Entry] Reference
And what is constancy, that it commands such usurious interest?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
Cassier was a banker by name, but in reality dealt in usurious loans. From Wordnik.com. [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference
The media's silence was deafening as credit-card rates became usurious. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Sam Wants You to Open Your Wallet] Reference
The local populace was the victim of usurious taxes, coercively applied. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Former kings, in like straits, had confiscated the wealth of the usurious. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
At what point should someone go to jail for usurious rates in this country?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 5, 2008] Reference
Even including usurious delivery charges, each table cost less than thirty dollars. From Wordnik.com. [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference
Therefore, likewise, whatever else is acquired from usurious money must be restored. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
But, for this advance of kindness, it usually exacts a most usurious return in the end. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
At what point do you think somebody should go to jail for usurious rates in this country?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 11, 2008] Reference
This can and should include a prohibition on usurious credit card interest rates and fees. From Wordnik.com. [Webb, Sanders Pressure Obama On Fed] Reference
Such usurious behaviour is planned deliberately, so it can funnel more cash to the government. From Wordnik.com. [Squeezing the poor until the pips squeak] Reference
Or again, He speaks here not of the hope of usurious gain, but of the hope which is put in man. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Not many loaned money to them willingly and only in small amounts and at usurious rates of interest. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
But it is no easy matter to be always honourable in all mercantile dealings and not to become usurious. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching] Reference
Short loans were adopted that we might not bind the future to the payment of usurious rates of interest. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Wherefore he has more right to the goods acquired with usurious money than to the usurious money itself. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
But he was charged a usurious rate, sometimes twice what other clients were charged for the same service. From Wordnik.com. [Ricochet]
He knew perfectly well from bitter experience that the poor man pays usurious rates for fortune's favours. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
And then there's the rest of us who are slaves to a mysterious "Credit Score" and lying, usurious lenders. From Wordnik.com. [McCains Delinquent On Tax Bill] Reference
English with that usurious interest with which men of all grades love to discharge their debts of the kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
The unjust change was when the contract was a usurious transaction veiled in the guise of a genuine exchange. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching] Reference
Shylock hated him because he would lend without interest, and was constantly reproving him for his usurious practice. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
To increase the price in return for the giving of credit was not allowed, as it was deemed usurious -- as indeed it was. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching] Reference
He attacked Barack for voting against limiting the usurious interest rates that credit card companies can charge working people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2008] Reference
Credit card debt was covered by usurious interest rates, so even if some borrowers defaulted, the banks were still making huge profits. From Wordnik.com. [Should Congress pass the bailout plan?] Reference
Now he owned a chain of cut-rate jewelry stores, the kind that extend credit to anybody and charge usurious interest rates for the favor. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Dread]
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