Usury [noun]

Definition of Usury:

lending money at a high interest rate

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Opposite/Antonyms of Usury:

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Sentence/Example of Usury:

You have been lending money on usury too, and on a bad security.

She wanted to pay him with usury for his cool, hard disdain.

His words are to be taken literally; all that He promises He gives with usury.

Thus we see that the divell is the planter, and the father of usury.

Those who have a home are relieved of the burden of usury by rent.

A loan is made to a landlord and he collects the usury from his tenants.

Usury is both the basis of the incorporation and the instrument of its oppression.

By the operation of usury she has lived upon the hard earnings of this poor widow.

A careful reading of this letter does not reveal a positive approval of usury.

He may be the director and manager but he so conducts his undertaking as to gather the usury from others.