extortionately
Americanadverb
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Sometimes I wished we could just bite the bullet and pay for that Office subscription or that niche, extortionately priced graphing tool that my brother wanted but we could reasonably never afford.
From The Verge ● Aug. 11, 2022
"Patients are being stuck for extortionately long periods in emergency departments," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2022
"Fish prices have gone up extortionately; oil prices have gone up extortionately; and everything across the whole spectrum that we sell has gone up extortionately," Singh told Reuters.
From Reuters ● May 26, 2022
Because they couldn’t obtain passports, most of them made their way to Dharamsala via various illegal trajectories, some of them extortionately expensive, some hair-raising, some both.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2020
“Now they've ordered an extortionately expensive renovation. Where is that key? My manager brought it to me months ago.”
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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