Crossword-Solution: USURERS
We have 24 clues for the answer “USURERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| People of great interest | 1 answer |
| Villainous ones in the Bible | 1 answer |
| Vigorish collectors | 1 answer |
| They work at a high rate | 1 answer |
| They take great interest in their work | 1 answer |
| They take great interest | 1 answer |
| They get a lot of interest | 1 answer |
| They generate lots of interest | 1 answer |
| There's much interest in their work | 1 answer |
| There's a lot of interest in their work | 1 answer |
| Shylock and colleagues | 1 answer |
| Sharks having vigorish | 1 answer |
| People like Shylock | 1 answer |
| Ones taking a lot of interest in their work? | 1 answer |
| Loan sharks | 1 answer |
| Illicit lenders | 1 answer |
| Financial parasites | 1 answer |
| Money lenders | 2 answers |
| Sharks | 4 answers |
| Some sharks | 5 answers |
| ACTIVITIES THAT GENERATE | 10 answers |
| AN EXORBITANT OR UNLAWFUL RATE OF INTEREST | 10 answers |
| AT A GREAT RATE | 10 answers |
| ACHIEVED BY TAKING THE FILM AT A FASTER RATE | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with USURERS (5)
Therefore I bid you be no tyrants or builders of cities for merchants and usurers and warriors and thralls, like the fool who builded Goldburg to be for a tomb to him: or like the thrall-masters of the Burg of the Four Friths, who even now, it may be, are pierced by their own staff or overwhelmed by their own wall.
Divertingly she described her personal experiences in the separation of usurers, thieves, financiers, hereditary noblemen, popular authors, and other social parasites, from the ill-got profits of their disreputable vocations.
Where did the colonists, discharged by the dictator who rewarded them, obtain these things? From the purse of the usurers; that is, of the patricians, to whom all these lands finally returned, in consequence of the rapid increase of usury, and the seizure of estates.
Further, when we are dressed up and bow, kneel, pray the rosary and the Psalter, and all this not before an idol, but before the holy cross of God or the pictures of His saints: this we call honoring and worshiping God, and, according to the First Commandment, "having no other gods"; although these things usurers, adulterers and all manner of sinners can do too, and do them daily.
The object of these scoundrels was to get hold of the poor ignorant people’s homesteads, and they were in league with the local usurers.
Quotes with USURERS (3)
Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much as to one another, and the community gathers around them to hear and to wish them well, on their behalf and its own. It gathers around them because it understands how neces…
An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect," Corelli asserted. "he claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old as that saying : "Tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and the feeble-min…
If the quality of the people got better as they aged, how good that would be, don’t you think so? Then we would put all the swindlers, crooks, usurers, robbers, hucksters, and gamblers we could find into a barrel and wait for some years, until their characters could leave an exquisite taste on all palates.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1981–2024).