Sentence example with the word 'exorbitant'

exorbitant

a bit much, cutting, exigent, gouging, incontinent, monstrous, overestimated, overwrought, rough, too much, unrestrained

Definition adj. 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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