loan shark

Example Sentences

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By charging fees that would make a loan shark blush.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025

Because of these limits, banks kept interest rates between 6 and 12 percent and didn’t do much business with the poor, who in a pinch took their valuables to the pawnbroker or the loan shark.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023

It also doesn’t help that Rahim has a slippery past relationship with the truth: He omitted the fact that his original debt was to a loan shark, not a bank.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2022

At the extreme end of this scale, a seemingly friendly neighbourhood money lender might well turn out to be a vicious loan shark.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2021

So she started loaning out money—a loan shark.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi