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Crossword-Solution: USURY 5 letters, 120 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Usury v. t. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for
a loan, as of money; interest.
Usury v. t. The practice of taking interest.
Usury v. t. Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower
for the use of money.

We have 120 clues for the answer “USURY”

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25% interest 1 answer
Activity of great interest? 1 answer
Activity of high interest? 1 answer
Asking too much of someone? 1 answer
Considerable interest? 1 answer
Crime of great interest 1 answer
Cutthroat lending 1 answer
Excess of a kind 1 answer
Excessive rate of interest. 1 answer
Exorbitant interest 1 answer
Exorbitant interest charge 1 answer
Exorbitant interest rate 1 answer
Exorbitant money-lending. 1 answer
Exorbitant rate of interest. 1 answer
Exploitative lending 1 answer
Exploitive moneylending 1 answer
Extortionate money lending 1 answer
Great deal of interest 1 answer
Great interest 1 answer
Greedy money transactions. 1 answer
Halal banking forbids it 1 answer
High interest rate 1 answer
High percentage of criminals? 1 answer
High-interest lending 1 answer
High-percentage crime? 1 answer
Illegal interest 1 answer
Illegal lending 1 answer
Illegal lending practice 1 answer
Illegal lending tactic 1 answer
Illegally high interest rate 1 answer
Interest to an unfair degree 1 answer
Interest to complain about 1 answer
It's overexacting 1 answer
It's overtaxing 1 answer
Lending at high interest 1 answer
Loan gouging 1 answer
Loan shark s sin 1 answer
Loan shark's "business" 1 answer
Loan shark's charge 1 answer
Loan shark's crime 1 answer
Loan shark's interest 1 answer
Loan shark's levy. 1 answer
Loan shark's line. 1 answer
Loan shark's offense 1 answer
Loan shark's overcharge 1 answer
Loan shark's penchant. 1 answer
Loan shark's practice 1 answer
Loan shark's sin 1 answer
Loan shark's specialty 1 answer
Loan sharking 1 answer
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with USURY (5)

Luker—who doesn’t stand at the top of the prosperous and ancient profession of usury for nothing! By the prompt dismissal of the man in his employment, he deprived the Indians of the assistance which their confederate would have rendered them in getting into the house.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.
John Barleycorn Jack London 2008
The two bankers, Phelps and Elder, sat off in a corner behind the dinner table, where they could finish their discussion of the new usury law and its effect on chattel security loans.
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories Willa Cather 1995
Valiant men, forsooth, shall arise in the beginning of these evil times, but though they shall die as ye shall, yet shall not their deaths be fruitful as yours shall be; because ye, forsooth, are fighting against villeinage which is waning, but they shall fight against usury which is waxing.
A Dream of John Ball, A King's Lesson William Morris 2008
The people--intoxicated and, as it were, stupefied by their long-continued orgies--had lost the very notion of right and duty: war and dissipation by turns swept them away; usury and the labor of machines (that is of slaves), by depriving them of the means of subsistence, hindered them from continuing the species.
What is Property? P. J. Proudhon 1995

Quotes with USURY (3)

In the new faith, there is only one commandment. It is this commandment, and this commandment alone, that must be followed to end the times of suffering, which are soon to come. FORSAKE USURY.
Compton Gage
There is no greater crime than a crime against humanity. There is no greater crime against humanity than usury. The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY.
Compton Gage
There is no greater crime against humanity than usury.
Compton Gage
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 158 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).