Usurious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for USURIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• practising usury, also USUROUS
• relating to or characterized by usury; extortionate
• Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person.
• Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract.
• greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• practicing usury

Words related to USURIOUS

usuriously13 usury8

Words that contain USURIOUS

usuriously13 usuriousness12 usuriousnesses14

How to use USURIOUS in a sentence

• It is true the Filipinos are responsible legally to the extent of five dollars only, a special enactment prohibiting these usurious bargains.
• The falls had taken her usurious share of the lives the river annually demands as her toll.
• He had obtained money from great numbers of small tradesmen and farmers, tempting them by usurious interest, which has made the distress very extensive.
• She made, so it was said in business offices, usurious loans by means of her brother, who appeared as a money-lender.
• Indians who have money and do not merely hoard it prefer to lend it out, often at usurious rates of interest, to their needy or thriftless fellow-countrymen.
• Hayes had exerted herself, with much benefit to her husband, in his usurious business.
• You may defer the catastrophe a little by borrowing short-time loans at a ruinous rate from usurious stimulants, giving many pounds of flesh as security.
• Formerly all loans of that nature were regarded as usurious.
• We speak, for example, familiarly of a usurious contract, and yet we say, speaking technically, that a usurious agreement is no contract.
• It was chiefly from the patrician that the bill concerning debts detracted the usurious gains which had been counted upon.
• But there was yet a third person, who gave the usurious knight more uneasiness than the other two.
• There are often delays and terms for certain payments, and bondsmen who intervene and bind themselves, but always with very usurious and excessive profits and interests.
• He cherished the hope of being able to repay the English with that usurious interest with which men of all grades love to discharge their debts of the kind.
• Not only can no more be collected on any contract or obligation than the legal rate, but in most of the states there is some forfeiture for taking usurious interest.

Similar words containing USURIOU without suffix s

usuriously13 usuriousness12 usuriousnesses14

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