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usurious

/yoo-zhoor-ee-uhs/US // yuˈʒʊər i əs //

高利贷,放高利贷,放高利贷的,奢侈

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : practicing usury; charging illegal or exorbitant rates of interest for the use of money: a usurious moneylender.
    • : constituting or characterized by usury: usurious rates of interest; a usurious loan.

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Examples

  • Merkley, as it happens, is from Delaware, where the banks holding this usurious debt are located.

  • When it came to Haiti, France was first a brutal colonizer, and then a usurious bully.

  • The young girl's father entrusted M. Cruchot with his usurious dealings and probably with all his money matters.

  • In the later middle ages, especially in Germany, it acquired the sense of usurious or oppressive dealing with money and capital.

  • The Jews were wealthy, and did no small harm by their usurious practices.

  • This was charged up against him to be paid for later at usurious interest.

  • Our post-office orders are issued at usurious rates, and within limited hours.