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He was especially concerned about interest, which could often reach usurious levels.

Whatever his main business is, he seems to have usurious relationships with people of little means.

After one and a half years, he was asked to record a usurious transaction.

Others used their cash boxes to loan money at usurious rates.

In one issue, he ran a report that a local minister had lent money to people at usurious rates.

When credit was available, it was usually provided at usurious rates.

People used to denounce banks for charging usurious interest rates.

Their debts are inflated by outrageous prices for food and usurious interest rates.

It is shameful to enslave poor countries by means of usurious financial systems.

Strange that the play he now read was about, so far as he could judge, a usurious Jew.

These licensing laws made it impossible for usurious lenders to pass themselves off as legal.

She lends money at usurious rates and then goes after those families who fail to repay.

Leases for apartments and stores all came with usurious payoffs.

For a usurious price to be sure, but what the hell, he had come through, hadn't he?

Know no doubt that it is worth the poverty, the abnegation, even the usurious loans.

Like Senon, the men were pale, their eyes hard and usurious.

The Russians also manipulated the trade by encouraging credit purchases at usurious rates of interest.

What justification is there for this usurious inflation?

That's merely guilt over the original usurious asking price."

All of it, including the usurious interest.

There is plenty in the Bible that should lead church leaders to regard this usurious state of affairs as close to wicked.

At times he suggested he was taking aim at a usurious banking industry.

(Though it's always worth remembering that 6.25 percent is not exactly usurious.)

Also, the loans came with usurious interest rates, so high in fact, that the bankers wouldn't admit to granting them.