Usurious is an English word with synonyms like exorbitant or extortionate. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Usurious in a sentence
Usurious meaning
- Of or pertaining to usury.
- Exorbitant.
Synonyms of Usurious
Using Usurious
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to usury. | Exorbitant.
- Useful related words include: exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep.
Context around Usurious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Usurious
- In this selection, "usurious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, money, business and landlords stand out and add context to how "usurious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ashkenazim those usurious money lenders and face of usurious landlords. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "usurious" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with usurious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And, of course, everyone knows that Ashkenazim — those usurious money lenders — have “no historical ties” to the Land of Israel. (20 words)
In fact, the debtor is not really the customer, but a chattel in a usurious business arrangement between school and Wall Street, with costs socialized by the federal government whose policies they buy. (33 words)
Kathmandu: Mandala Book Point, 1999. p. 189 When promised land reforms failed to appear, people in some districts started to organize to enact their own land reform and to gain some power over their lives in the face of usurious landlords. (41 words)
Kathmandu: Mandala Book Point, 1999. p. 189 When promised land reforms failed to appear, people in some districts started to organize to enact their own land reform and to gain some power over their lives in the face of usurious landlords. (41 words)
In fact, the debtor is not really the customer, but a chattel in a usurious business arrangement between school and Wall Street, with costs socialized by the federal government whose policies they buy. (33 words)
And, of course, everyone knows that Ashkenazim — those usurious money lenders — have “no historical ties” to the Land of Israel. (20 words)
Example sentences (3)
And, of course, everyone knows that Ashkenazim — those usurious money lenders — have “no historical ties” to the Land of Israel.
In fact, the debtor is not really the customer, but a chattel in a usurious business arrangement between school and Wall Street, with costs socialized by the federal government whose policies they buy.
Kathmandu: Mandala Book Point, 1999. p. 189 When promised land reforms failed to appear, people in some districts started to organize to enact their own land reform and to gain some power over their lives in the face of usurious landlords.