Extortionate is valid Scrabble Word

Is extortionate a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is extortionate valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

12 letters word
19 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for EXTORTIONATE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

characterized by extortion
(of a price) much too high; exorbitant
using or given to extortion
Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation

Words related to EXTORTIONATE

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Words that contain EXTORTIONATE

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How to use EXTORTIONATE in a sentence

The class of lawyers was large, and their gains were extortionate.
He observed that the prices they are compelled to pay are extortionate, that their lands are quite destitute of the larger animals, and that the beaver is nearly destroyed.
Prices were now deliberately pressed down to bankruptcy, while the railroads, with extortionate rates, broke the back of the farmer-camel.
Rita feverishly renewed her old quest, seeking in all directions for some less extortionate purveyor.
The Bedouins are extortionate to strangers, dishonest to each other, and reckless of human life.
Often the man who is the most mean in buying is the most extortionate in selling.
Prices for everything were extortionate, and the colonists had no mind for any affairs than their own, so after a short stay the voyagers were glad to set out for the Mauritius.
They also give directions for avoiding extortionate or illegal fees.
We circulate every town and extortionate not for advertisements.
Of all usurers and bailiffs he had a wholesome horror, and merry was the prank which he played upon the extortionate money-lender of Warwick.

This shabby and extortionate kind of protest against subdivision has long obtained on certain estates.
Considering that the box system is quite as advantageous to the Government as to the box holder, this rent is simply extortionate.
The Sandwich Islanders had actually formed the plot of capturing every vessel that came into their harbors and holding the crews for extortionate ransom.
At page 157 we notice the extortionate practices of a Magian.
He replied that the market price was extortionate, and that his conscience would not allow him to accept it.
The Company was a harsh and extortionate master, who paid little attention to the needs and the welfare of the settlement, which was regarded merely as a place of call.
With this laxity of principle they quarter themselves on the credulity of extortionate tradesmen, and the good-natured simplicity of friends or associates.
When they reigned over us, they oppressed our principal men, and laid heavy and extortionate burdens upon the land.
During a whole year he met only selfish and extortionate customers, with the exception of one old lady who alone did not ask for more than was her due.
He thus charges an extortionate amount for his goats and chickens, and demands heavy fees for services rendered.
Such lawless, tricky, extortionate loan sharks as now infest our cities were probably not to be found at all in mediaeval or early modern times.

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