loan shark

Example Sentences

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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's also worth remembering that friends and family may be the best people to spot if someone has become a victim of a loan shark.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 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