extortionately
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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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.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024
"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
It’s hard to fault the Hummingbird Electric 2.0 by most normal measures, because clearly this is a bike that’s been designed to offer zero compromises aside from its extortionately high price.
From The Verge • Aug. 12, 2021
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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