usuriousness
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Usuriousness — Usurious U*su ri*ous (?; 277), a. [From {Usury}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person. [1913 Webster] 2. Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
usuriousness — noun see usurious … New Collegiate Dictionary
usuriousness — n. lending of money at an unreasonably high rate of interestu·su·ri·ous·ness || juË Ê’ÊŠrɪəsnɪs /juË zjÊŠÉ™r … English contemporary dictionary
usuriousness — usu·ri·ous·ness … English syllables
usuriousness — noun see usurious * * * usūˈriousness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑usury … Useful english dictionary
usurious — adjective Date: 1610 1. practicing usury 2. involving usury ; of the character of usury < usurious interest rates > • usuriously adverb • usuriousness noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
usurious — usuriously, adv. usuriousness, n. /yooh zhoor ee euhs/, adj. 1. practicing usury; charging illegal or exorbitant rates of interest for the use of money: a usurious moneylender. 2. constituting or characterized by usury: usurious rates of… … Universalium
churlishness — n 1. rusticity, ruralism, agrarianism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism; inurbanity, back woodsiness, provincialism, provinciality, yokelism, Sl. hickishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness. 2. boorishness, loutishness,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
miserliness — n 1. stinginess, niggardliness, parsimony, penuriousness, churlishness, nearness; meanness, selfishness, tightness, tight fistedness, closefist edness, cheapness, Sl. chintziness; graspingness, avidity, avarice, avariciousness, greed, cupidity,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
niggardliness — n 1. parsimony, miserliness, penu riousness, meanness, churlishness, nearness; stinginess, tightness, tight fistedness, closefistedness, closeness, closehandedness, cheapness, Sl. chintziness. 2. scrimpiness, shabbiness, grudgingness, begrudg… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
