How to Use usury in a Sentence

usury

noun

• Most states have usury laws, which cap the rate of interest that can be charged.
  — Steven Davidoff Solomon, New York Times, 17 May 2016
• When the plague struck Barcelona, both explanations were used, about usury and the killing of Christ.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2020
• The cameras made the evils of usury, stealing and smuggling visible.
  — Richard Vokes, Quartz Africa, 30 June 2019
• The tribal connection, which critics say is designed to try to skirt state usury laws, isn't new.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2019
• But with the help of her brother’s historical research, her reporting may put a stop to some of the worst usury on the Strip.
  — John Domini, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• Delaware wasted no time in trashing its usury law as well.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2021
• Your problem with the credit-card companies is usury rates, from your position.
  — Julie Bykowicz, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2020
• In states where usury laws cap interest rates, the company lowers its highest rate - 36 percent - to comply.
  — Peter Whoriskey, courant.com, 2 July 2018
• Democrats say the rule is actually meant to let those firms evade state usury laws and rate caps by partnering with banks that are subject to looser federal lending rules.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 29 Mar. 2021
• If the loan is made in the name of the bank, but the nonbank lender provides the capital, assumes the risks, and takes over ownership of the loan after it is consummated, courts have allowed enforcement of state usury laws.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
• Jews were labeled materialistic and corrupt centuries before the Catholic Church began to worry about usury, or even about the sin of avarice.
  — Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• The four companies are affiliated with the Habematolel Pomo tribe, which has argued that it is not governed by state laws and should not have to comply with state usury rules.
  — Stacy Cowley, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• The industry argues that the advances are technically not loans — the money is paid back only if the plaintiff wins a settlement or a jury award — and are therefore exempt from state usury laws.
  — Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2018
• The bill passed by Congress would allow state attorneys general to investigate whether the affiliations of lenders with banks is for the purpose of evading state usury laws.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2021
• America’s top marginal tax rate stayed at ninety-one per cent until 1964, and anti-usury laws kept a ceiling on interest rates until the late seventies.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
• EasyPay gets around the Massachusetts usury law by being affiliated with a bank headquartered outside the state, which cuts off the state’s authority to regulate it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2021
• The state also has a robust financial and community banking industry, spurred in part by usury law changes that eliminated the caps on interest rates and attracted the likes of Citibank and other credit card issuers.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 12 May 2020
• In recent years, 17 states have brought back strong usury limits, capping interest rates and effectively prohibiting payday lending.
  — Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• But usury, officially forbidden by the medieval Church, was still practiced, particularly by monks.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2020
• The weakest members of society should be helped to defend themselves against usury, just as poor peoples should be helped to derive real benefit from micro-credit, in order to discourage the exploitation that is possible in these two areas.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2018
• Payday lending companies at times incorporate their businesses on tribal lands because tribes are generally immune from state regulations and lawsuits, and there’s no federal law on usury on the books.
  — Steve Vockrodt, kansascity.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• One, as previously noted, is the conflict between the religious prohibition of usury and its economic necessity.
  — Dan Hofstadter, WSJ, 25 June 2021
• The federal legislation being considered includes a provision saying state usury laws wouldn’t apply to ISAs, since the agreements technically don’t charge interest.
  — Jillian Berman, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2017
• The 12% annual interest rate may sound excessive, but it is actually allowed as an exception to the normal maximum rate of interest permitted in most transactions in California under the state’s usury laws.
  — Donie Vanitzian, latimes.com, 9 Sep. 2017
• More than 12 states, including Pennsylvania, effectively prohibit traditional payday loans through criminal usury laws and statutes that cap annual interest rates, yet the industry remains robust.
  — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 25 May 2018

Last Updated: 23 Aug 2024