Sentence examples for extortionate manner from inspiring English sources

The Pasok deputy labour minister, Yannis Koutsoukos, who resigned in protest on Thursday, accused the "troika" – officials from the European commission, ECB and IMF – of behaving "in an extortionate manner that is completely improper and shameless".

Definition 2: A person who behaves in a manner formerly attributed to Jews; a grasping or extortionate person".

This is extortionate.

But private renting is extortionate".

Taxes have become extortionate in some countries.

Katherine Ogilive thought graduation was "absolutely extortionate.

There are signs this extortionate practice is about to change.

Perhaps the extortionate fees are not all bad.

Ticket prices, seemingly once so extortionate, are now a bargain.

That's just extortionate – it's guilt money.

Loan sharks, charging extortionate rates of interest, thrive.