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usurer

[yoo-zher-er] / ˈyu ʒər ər /




NOUN
loan shark
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Fat Usurer in reply to Fat Usurer Nov 26th 2012 10:30 GMT ... and further more, leaders may not understand what they're discussing and what they want.

From Economist • Nov. 23, 2012

Fat Usurer in reply to sikko6 May 20th 2012 4:51 GMT IMO, ECB will go away first, since it's a gun without bullet.

From Economist • May 15, 2012

Last week Usurer Ritter pleaded guilty to ten counts of usury, will be sentenced for them after Pacific Fi nance has repaid $250,000 to its victims.

From Time Magazine Archive

His art was essentially dramatic, and he has some fine dramatic moments, as for example when the Usurer soliloquizing miserably on his certain ultimate damnation suddenly cries out O storthe unto mie mynde!

From The Rowley Poems by Chatterton, Thomas

This one sentence will discou- rage any Usurer, knowyng hymself a murtherer.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Rainolde, Richard




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