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extortionately

[ik-stawr-shuh-nit-lee]

adverb

  1. in a way, at a price, or to a degree that is extortionate.



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"If you make every ticket extortionately expensive, then it's so out of order on most of your fan base," he says.

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They argue the Rwanda plan is an "extortionately expensive gimmick" - but will face questions about whether their ideas would be any better, particularly if and when flights do begin.

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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.

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"Patients are being stuck for extortionately long periods in emergency departments," he said.

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"If they do come up, are extortionately expensive. There'll be two, three hundred going for the same properties - that's for private rentals."

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