extortionate
[ik-stawr-shuh-nit]
adjective
grossly excessive; exorbitant: extortionate prices.
characterized by extortion, as persons: extortionate moneylenders.
Origin of extortionate
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Related Words for extortionate
avaricious, corrupt, exacting, greedy, rapacious, severe, bloodsucking, exorbitant, expensive, extravagant, unreasonableExamples from the Web for extortionate
Contemporary Examples of extortionate
Businesses are suffering more each day in an area where the rents are extortionate, and the situation could boil over soon.
Her sentence was manifestly excessive (the order to pay an extortionate $186 million alone proves his bias).
Historical Examples of extortionate
These were great demands, and were regarded as extortionate and oppressive.
UsuryCalvin Elliott
Of course I told the woman that this, to say the least, was an extortionate demand.
MoralLudwig Thoma
What is the measure of extortionate prices in this connection?
Distributive JusticeJohn A. (John Augustine) Ryan
For the time the bogey of extortionate charges was laid at rest.
Railroads: Rates and RegulationsWilliam Z. Ripley
Away with my German-Swiss hotel, and the extortionate cynic who keeps it!
My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2)Wilkie Collins
extortionate
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