Meaning & use
usurer
A person who lends money at unfairly or illegally high rates of interest.
See it in a sentence
The desperate farmer borrowed from a local usurer at a punishing rate of interest.
Medieval literature often portrayed the usurer as a greedy and unsympathetic figure.
A note on using this word
Usurer carries a strongly negative, moralizing tone, unlike the neutral term lender.
Words with a similar meaning
moneylenderloan shark
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