Sentence example with the word 'usurer'

usurer

Definition n. someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest

Last update: July 30, 2015


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Usurers exploited the poor landless labourers.   [Please select]

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The simple system of rural economy is entirely based upon the dealings of this man, whom it is the fashion sometimes to decry as a usurer, but who is really the one thrifty person among an improvident population.   [Please select]

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"A Hindu usurer of Simla," replied the Colonel.   [Please select]

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"We will keep still till Squire Moses lets on," said Stumpy; and everybody except the usurer was pleased.   [Please select]

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Or possibly you have been a usurer or a drunkard, or wasted your life in wickedness and wrong-doing.   [Please select]

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The usurer walked back to the counter, determined, however, not to prolong the argument.   [Please select]

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The introduction of money[230] probably increased the facilities of the usurer and the difficulties of the borrowing debtor.   [Please select]

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I am not going to stand by and see a man who saved my life fall into the clutches of an usurer.   [Please select]

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