How to Use usurious in a Sentence

usurious

adjective

• In Plutarch, Romans were weighed down by usurious interest rates.
  — James Shapiro, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
• Consumer advocates have complained for years that these loans are usurious and unfair.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2020
• Still, states could set their own rules that apply specifically to ISAs to protect students from usurious-like behavior.
  — Jillian Berman, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2017
• Moreover, the large majority of calls and texts are from prisoners to their families — a way to get around the usurious rates that telecoms charge prisoners and their families to stay in touch via payphones.
  — Ryan Singel, WIRED, 14 July 2009
• Depending on how an agreement is structured, the repayment obligation could be usurious, Mr. Kantrowitz says.
  — Jillian Berman, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2017
• During a bad year, money from the sale of the cotton crop might not cover even the initial cost of the inputs, let alone suffice to pay the usurious interest on loans or provide adequate food or necessities for the family.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2012
• In the case of individuals, Cameron defended the practice as a sort of populist alternative for some people to usurious payday-lending schemes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2021
• In the case of individuals, Mr. Cameron defended the practice as a sort of populist alternative for some people to usurious payday-lending schemes.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2021
• And yes, Porsche's usurious options list is scarily seductive.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2021
• With so many credit cards charging usurious interest rates and fees—annual rates in excess of 25 percent—without such a stay, families will emerge from the crisis with unmanageable debt burdens; and this, too, will slow the recovery.
  — Joseph E. Stiglitz, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
• Palmer's plans were trimmed—EV development suspended, plans to revive Lagonda put on ice—and more money was raised to keep the company going, at increasingly usurious interest rates.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 2 July 2020
• People without credit scores are vulnerable to usurious payday loans and other pricey forms of credit and also face barriers to housing and employment.
  — Palash Ghosh, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• But one consumer agency representative fought back by researching tribal law to release a borrower from a usurious payday loan.
  — Ed Leefeldt, CBS News, 30 July 2019
• The tendency of players and their families to take out loans with usurious lenders only exacerbates the problem, according to a veteran Dominican trainer who asked not to be identified because he is involved in such deals.
  — Christian Red and Teri Thompson, USA TODAY, 17 June 2020
• The Amin government labeled them as usurpers of black Ugandans’ economic power, a foreign minority whose usurious self-interest ran against the majority.
  — Richard Vokes, Quartz Africa, 30 June 2019
• Apple is trying to show Fortnite pays similar royalties to console gaming partners, while Epic compares the allegedly usurious App Store is like a car salesman who expects a royalty on gas purchases.
  — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• Prior to that, a federal judge ruled that Tucker should repay $1.3 billion resulting from a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit against him and his businesses for his usurious payday loan enterprise.
  — Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 20 Dec. 2017
• Banks routinely indulge in practices that are legal but should not be, such as imposing usurious interest rates on borrowers or exorbitant fees on merchants for credit and debit cards and creating securities that are designed to fail.
  — Joseph E. Stiglitz, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2018
• A lot of this spending is facilitated by revolving credit that currently commands usurious interest rates.
  — WSJ, 19 June 2020
• Many of the failing institutions sank the money into speculative investments during a real estate bubble, lent to well-connected friends or charged usurious interest rates to desperate borrowers.
  — Thomas Erdbrink, David D. Kirkpatrick and Nilo Tabrizy, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2018
• On the other side of the divide, college is viewed as meandering, luxurious, usurious, and somehow unmasculine, which explains the increasing college gender gap (not only in enrollment, but increasingly completion).
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• Quranic regulations could be interpreted to allow for reasonable interest payments while banning usurious interest.
  — Daniel Pipes, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024