usurious
1
9.9
- adjective
- /juˈzʊəriəs/
- Specialized
:
usurero
- Or take the case of excessive credit card interest charges and penalties, usurious payday and subprime lending, and lately, the teaser rates used in home mortgage financing.
- usurious money
And we now have a regulator, a new regulator that's supposed to stomp on these these usurious practices.
- And we now have a regulator, a new regulator that's supposed to stomp on these these usurious practices.
Examples
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He sent me to a man who makes loans at usurious rates.
Fiction book (1993) -
I mostly settle for getting them to buy me drinks at usurious prices.
Blog text (13) -
At this usurious rate, the East Coast banks were betting that the Union would last just two years.
Academic text (2009) -
Those are foreclosed upon, then rented back to us at usurious rates.
Blog text (15) -
People are frustrated as they live on borrowed money from illiterate and usurious money lenders.
Academic text (2006) -
And we now have a regulator, a new regulator that's supposed to stomp on these these usurious practices.
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For instance, dealers in the nearby port of Den Helder, where many Texelians landed their catches, had developed usurious practices.
Academic text (1996) -
It gave the priest an entree that allowed him to mobilize for better housing, form cooperatives, and end usurious money lending.
Academic text (1994) -
The junta "decreed the abolition of all usurious debts on the part of farmers and fishermen" (Kim 1975, 232).
Academic text (1992) -
Many borrowers struggled under the usurious interest rates imposed by local lenders.
Synonyms
98
4.2
Too high to be fair or reasonable
39
4.2
Very high in price and hard to afford
35
8.9
Very wrong and unfair in a way people cannot accept
25
7.9
A price or cost that is much higher than it should be
12
4.2
Making you pay a lot of interest on borrowed money
2
7.9
Much more expensive than a fair price
Antonyms
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Usurious comes from the Latin word usura, which meant 'use' and gave English usury and the everyday word use. Later this idea became a fee for 'use' of money, that is 'interest'. That's why usurious describes loans that charge very high or unfair rates.