extortionate

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extortionate englannista suomeksi

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(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Tonson|Jacob and Richard Tonson and S. Draper|year=1745|page=42|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=DNBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA42|oclc=1227585453|passage=Now it is certain the ''Roman'' prieſts are not only ſeemingly very religious and really very extortionate, but are extortionate by means of religion, and make their prayers and maſſes the grand pretence for their exactions.
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Greatly exceeding what is moderate or reasonable; exorbitant.

(antonyms)

(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) M. Ritchie; sold by N. Scarlett,(nb...)|year=1797|page=197|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=iQDSCyi4KA8C&pg=PA197|oclc=1179504160|passage=You get from farms ſo occupied, houſe lamb, veal, graſs lamb, a little mutton, and leſs beef, whilſt for either article ſeparately, or jointly, you are worked up to pay prices, not leſt than extortionate; (..)
(RQ:Charlotte Bronte Villette) I have the satisfaction to think you are in good hands; M. Miret will not be extortionate: the first year's rent you already have in your savings; afterwards Miss Lucy must trust God, and herself.
(quote-journal)|date=15 August 1902|volume=XLVI|issue=346 (New Series)|page=528|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5z08AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA528|column=2|oclc=421828996|passage=Down the coast among the sandhills is Blankenberg, a growing rival to Ostend, with which a steam tram connects it. The sands are firm and clean, and the hotels not unpleasantly extortionate.
(quote-book) Henry Patterson|chapter=1|title=The Death Trade|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons|George Palmer Putnam’s Sons|year=2013|year_published=2014|page=3|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780399165894/page/n17/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-399-16589-4|passage=At an extortionate price, he had obtained a hire car to take him to Homs, and from there he intended to cross the border and proceed to Beirut.