Meanings of usurious rates in English

He knew perfectly well from bitter experience that the poor man pays usurious rates for fortune's favours.

Not many loaned money to them willingly and only in small amounts and at usurious rates of interest.

Short loans were adopted that we might not bind the future to the payment of usurious rates of interest.

Some critics contend payday lenders charge usurious rates to trap borrowers in a cycle of debt they can't escape.

It is incredible that up to now they tried to tighten the screw by instability-inducing, usurious rates of interest.

Again, it is charged, or rather insinuated, that officers of the Bank have loaned money at usurious rates of interest.

However, it turns out that, without subsidies from governments or international donors, microfinance institutions have to charge, and have been charging, near- usurious rates.