loan shark
Example Sentences
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"There is always some sort of control measure by the loan shark to get you to pay," he said.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
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
Again, they’d rather deal with us than with some gangster loan shark.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
