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Usurious   Listen
adjective
Usurious  adj.  
1.
Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person.
2.
Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract.





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"Usurious" Quotes from Famous Books



... advantage to the West, if conditions were right, is too manifest to need explanation. But sometimes the over-optimistic farmer borrowed too heavily; sometimes the rates demanded of the needy westerners were usurious; often it seemed as if interest charges were like "a mammoth sponge," constantly absorbing the labor of the husbandman. The demand of the West for a greater currency supply has already been seen, for it appeared in the platforms of minor parties immediately after ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley
... if you could have seen, as I saw, this joyous gathering of persons who had drawn in their commercial claws, and were speculating only on the pleasures of life, you would have found no cause to hate usurious discounts, or to curse bankruptcies. Mankind can't always be doing evil. Even in the society of pirates one might find a few sweet hours during which we could fancy their sinister craft a pleasure-boat rocking ...
— The Red Inn • Honore de Balzac
... robber baron, reining up his pony. "Hans and Jorgan, is your captive safe? Good. Bring him forth." He turned to his invisible band. "To your quarters, varlets! I would confer alone with the usurious"—he rolled the satisfying word finely ...
— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson
... to make sure that it was genuine, stout, and well-founded. Mrs Hamps followed, the fripperies of her elegant bonnet trembling, and her black gown rustling. Edwin smiled at her, and she returned his smile with usurious interest. There was now a mist of grey ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... deep, he, Gordon Makimmon, would have no necessity for circuitous dealing; his course would be simple, unmistakable.—He would lend money at, say, three per cent, grant extensions of time wherever necessary, and knock the bottom out of the storekeepers' usurious monopoly, drag the farms out ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer


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