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- Exorbitant - a. - Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims.
- Exorbitant - a. - Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.
- Exorbitantly - adv. - In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.
- Arrogance - n. - The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.
- Arrogation - n. - The act of arrogating, or making exorbitant claims; the act of taking more than one is justly entitled to.
- Shave - v. t. - An exorbitant discount on a note.
- Exorbitant - a. - Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims.
- Rapacity - n. - The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
- Usurious - a. - Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person.
- Usurer - n. - One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money.