usurious Meaning & Definition

  • En [ juːˈzjʊə.ri.əs]
  • Us [ juːˈʒʊr.i.əs]

Meaning of usurious In English

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  • He began as a financier, lending small sums of money to workmen at usurious interest.

  • He had borrowed money at usurious rates to start a tiny store.

  • Many of them can't make payments on the usurious loans they take out to finance their trip.

  • No wonder the church ignored, or even repudiated, its immemorial condemnation of usurious finance.

  • What justification is there for this usurious inflation?

  • Such encouragement puts people in hock, constantly in debt, often unable to meet usurious rates of interest, which seem constantly to he hiked up.

  • People who are trapped in poverty can encounter usurious rates.

  • They are always asking us what we propose to do to cut the trammels of this usurious interest.

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