loan shark
Example Sentences
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By charging fees that would make a loan shark blush.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025
A clip of their shared cubicle scene — in which loan shark Kathy rags on Dreux’s low credit score — has captured more than 9.2 million views on Instagram since the film’s Jan. 17 release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025
Only a loan shark would dream of risking a dime on Ryan, as Keith would instantly have known.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2022
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
