loan shark
Example Sentences
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By charging fees that would make a loan shark blush.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025
Jillette’s latest novel, “Random,” is about a young man who inherits his father’s crushing debt to a loan shark and turns to dice — and other dangerous measures — to dig himself out.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 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
At the extreme end of this scale, a seemingly friendly neighbourhood money lender might well turn out to be a vicious loan shark.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2021
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
