Adjective : a usurious moneylender. ,usurious rates of interest; a usurious loan. From Dictionary.com.
Well, supposing I do turn over a new leaf, and spend the gold my father got so usuriously, in doing good!. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Students who fill classrooms and pay usuriously high interest rates for college educational dollars fund the university and college's real end product: Scholarly research and development. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Ross: Rather than Race to the Top, We Should Have Started Fixing Education There] Reference
At an arbitrary rate of 0.6 to the US dollar, protest many debtors, the debt is usuriously inflated. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The old debt remained, of course, and perhaps took advantage of this quiet period to grow usuriously. From Wordnik.com. [Documenting the American South: Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference
Henslowe became a theatrical manager some time before 1592, trading also as a pawnbroker, and dealing rather usuriously with the players and playwrights about him. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference
It is not impossible but that in happier times they may be brought on the stage: and to throw away this chance for a mere trifle, would be to make the present moment act fraudulently and usuriously towards the future time. From Wordnik.com. [Selected English Letters]
It is not impossible but that in happier times, they may be brought on the stage: and to throw away this chance for a mere trifle, would be to make the present moment act fraudulently and usuriously towards the future time. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
Bruce writes: "I'm a smoker and I'm sick to death of being taxed usuriously and discriminated against. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2005] Reference
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