usurer

Example Sentences

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Congress has the power to – and should – drive usurers away from our military installations, because such lenders pose a risk to the national defense.

From US News • May 8, 2015

And the printed books in the collection include some items, like a 1775 work on laws concerning pawnbrokers and usurers, that are not listed in any library in the comprehensive WorldCat database.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2013

MacArthur packed the cash in a bundle of $100 and $50 bills for Freelance Writer Francis P. Antel to deliver to the usurers who had held the 100.32-carat ruby as collateral on a loan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few Uruguayans would disagree with the complaint of Brigadier General Jos� Jaume that as surely as the Tupamaros were enemies, "so are the profiteers, the usurers, the speculators, the government swindlers."

From Time Magazine Archive

All he receives from you is owing to the usurers.

From Judith Trachtenberg A Novel by Franzos, Karl Emil