exorbitance

Example Sentences

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Maybe its exorbitance seemed too out of place for two travelers who had spent the last several days discovering the unpretentious beauty of Hawaii.

From New York Times

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

The small scale helps: no chance of the various "treat stops" and catering points being overwhelmed, although with prices such as a ludicrous £2.70 for an ice lolly, a self-policing exorbitance is also in play.

From The Guardian

It was borne upon them that this exorbitance, a strange incident in their own lives, was to these others a daily occurrence.

From Project Gutenberg

By the agitators, the deplorable state of the Irish people is, on all occasions, attributed to the want of security in possession, and to the exorbitance of the rents.

From Project Gutenberg