usurious
adjective
practicing usury; charging illegal or exorbitant rates of interest for the use of money.
usuriously
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a word derived from
usurious.
Example Sentences
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Well, supposing I do turn over a new leaf, and spend the gold my father got so usuriously, in doing good!
From Gladys, the Reaper by Anne Beale
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 A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook
And the Baileys gathered and reinvested usuriously not money, but knowledge of the utmost value in human affairs.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
If, however, a field be bought with the profits of usury, the usurer is bound to pay tithes on the produce, because the latter is not gotten usuriously but given by God.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
At an arbitrary rate of 0.6 to the US dollar, protest many debtors, the debt is usuriously inflated.
From Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era by Samuel Vaknin
