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Перевод: extortionate

[прилагательное]
вымогательский; грабительский

Тезаурус:

1. In his Introduction, Dodd reminded his readers that if a person owed only forty shillings, an extortionate litigious creditor could immediately obtain a writ, often by a false malicious oath, and deprive him of his liberty.
2. When he'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side, for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price, and Boy had moved in.
3. So as I sipped the barely brown dishwater he passed off as coffee (at a wholly extortionate price) I was able to thaw my limbs, re-line my stomach, rest my hand and ponder at length the best or most honest method by which to tackle the remainder of this difficult and embarrassing work of explanation.
4. Once licensed, the lender must not make an "extortionate" charge for the loan.
5. But constant complaints were made by the forest inhabitants that the Forest officers did not allow them to exercise these common rights unless they paid illegal and extortionate dues.
6. Of course, this is extortionate by French standards, but no dearer than many regional airports in Britain.
7. He had plenty of tales of what had happened to others, though; the most gruesome being a double-headed story about an American tourist who had refused to pay a taxi driver's extortionate rates.
8. The building trades are also riddled with extortionate practices, but here the influence of the Mafia is probably exaggerated.
9. Grumbles from businessmen about bad service, extortionate prices and victimisation for trying to switch garbage collectors have provoked at least eight government investigations since the mid-1950s into racketeering in the city's waste-disposal industry.
10. A very large amount had already been collected on a voluntary basis by religious groups for the Famine, making it seem almost superfluous or extortionate to do more.
11. The same fear sustains extortionate bills in some other businesses.
12. A particularly notorious den of restrictive, and extortionate, practices is the Jacob Javits Convention Centre, where the Democratic party will hold its convention next year to nominate its presidential candidate.
13. Others had their cattle seized by Neville's men until they paid extortionate fines, although their cases should have been heard before the king's judges.