usurer
Example Sentences
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Himself a usurer, Shakespeare must have known how much he had invested in Shylock.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2010
Nicholas' Uncle Ralph, a wily usurer and the evil genius of the piece, discovers his humanity too late, so that it ends by destroying him.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in 1884, a sickly boy was born in the Ghetto at Leghorn, Tuscany, to Flaminio Modigliani, son of a Roman usurer.
From Time Magazine Archive
He does, however, object to the second: "As a name of opprobrium or reprobation; spec. applied to a grasping or extortionate moneylender or usurer, or a trader who drives hard bargains or deals craftily."
From Time Magazine Archive
His father was a notorious usurer and the chief go-between in the governor’s bribe-taking and money-lending transactions.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan
