exorbitance
Example Sentences
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The exorbitance of Park Place, the alien sound of Kamchatka and Irkutsk — these were backward-feeling games that urged ravenous competition.
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023
“Do you need to have all this excess and exorbitance spent on making a bathroom experience fun and exciting?”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2022
And sadness, like exorbitance, depends entirely upon what it’s being compared to.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 11, 2019
What's interesting about all this is not that people at the bottom of the market get fleeced, but rather that those same tactics – complexity and exorbitance – are deployed by the mainstream as well.
From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2012
N. dearness &c. adj.; high price, famine price, fancy price; overcharge; extravagance; exorbitance, extortion; heavy pull upon the purse.
From Roget's Thesaurus by Roget, Peter Mark
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Second Treatise of Government
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