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Definitionadj. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
Last update: August 10, 2016
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The inevitable consequence of exorbitant bribes, and the penitentiary, followed. [adjective]
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Last year onion was sold in exorbitant prices. [adjective]
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The farming of exorbitant taxes, coupled as it was too often with dishonest concessions to the tax farmer, made the over-burdened peasantry drink the doubly bitter cup of exploitation and injustice. [adjective]
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Yet in spite of the apparently exorbitant percentage of profit, few country merchants become rich. [adjective]
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Extravagant salaries were paid to favorites, and unnecessary equipment was bought at exorbitant prices. [adjective]
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Anticipating an easier victory than she had foreseen, she named an exorbitant sum. [adjective]
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"It isn't exorbitant if I choose to pay it, Mrs." [adjective]
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Prince Duncan protested against these terms as exorbitant, but was finally obliged to accede to them. [adjective]
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