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Adjective usurious has 1 sense
- usurious(s = adj.all) exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable - greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending" Derived form noun usury1
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usurious, a. [From Usury.].
- Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person. [1913 Webster]
- Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract. [1913 Webster]
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usurious
cutthroat, exacting, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, gouging, grossly overpriced, immoderate, inflationary, inordinate, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overpriced, preposterous, prohibitive, skyrocketing, spiraling, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, unwarrantedROGET THESAURUS
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Parsimony
N parsimony, parcity, parsimoniousness, stinginess, stint, illiberality, tenacity, avarice, greed, miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer, Hessian, pinch fist, pinch penny, parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close, fast handed, close handed, strait handed, close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted, tight, sparing, chary, grudging, griping, illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious, with a sparing hand, desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia, hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill, the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures.
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