usury
the practice of lending money at unreasonably high interest
Usury in a sentence
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Medieval laws often condemned usury as a grave moral offense.
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Far from being the revolutionary thinker his admirers claimed, the philosopher was in fact quite blank, defending the traditional doctrines of his teachers without challenge.
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