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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "extortionate" in a sentence

    extortionate example sentences

    extortionate


    1. Pay an extortionate fare and still be late!


    2. This effect costs an extortionate amount of money and is the reason the plates have to be changed every few months


    3. All of these are but extortionate ways of making money and having control over spirits that shun God and are unmindful of remembering Him


    4. ' Oh! I'm not extortionate


    5. be not extortionate


    6. Every dynastic and political feud, all the executions resulting from such feuds, the crushing of rebellions, the use of the military in dispersing mobs, in putting down strikes, all extortionate taxation, the injustice of land ownership and the limitations of freedom of labor,—all this is done, if not directly by the troops, then by the police supported by the troops


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    Synonyms for "extortionate"

    exorbitant extortionate outrageous steep unconscionable usurious unreasonable extravagant rapacious severe wasteful greedy

    "extortionate" definitions

    greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation