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Synonyms for usury
ˈyu ʒə riusu·ry

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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. usury, vigorishnoun

    an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest

    Synonyms:
    rake-off, vigorish

  2. usurynoun

    the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest

    Synonyms:
    vigorish

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. usurynoun

    Synonyms:
    illegal interest, exorbitant interest

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "usury":

    usura, wear

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  1. Lawrence Dennis:

    It comes as news to most people to learn that practically all important ethical teachers -- Moses, Aristotle, Jesus, Mohammed, and Saint Thomas Aquinas, for instance -- have denounced lending at interest as usury and as morally wrong.


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