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The rent in that building is exorbitant.exorbitant = a lot more than is reasonable or typical
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Airline tickets, hotels, everything is exorbitant in that city on holiday weekends.exorbitant = a lot more expensive than is reasonable or typical
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Haymitch is our only hope, but nothing is forthcoming, either from lack of money — everything will cost an exorbitant amount — or because he's dissatisfied with our performance. (source)exorbitant = a lot more than is reasonable
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To them, payday lenders were predatory sharks, charging high interest rates on loans and exorbitant fees for cashed checks.† (source)exorbitant = a lot more than is reasonable or typical
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They charge exorbitant prices for their wares, and get whatever they ask," he said bitterly.† (source)
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The sum is exorbitant.† (source)
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I doubt my dad would approve such an exorbitant expenditure of government funds"especially for what he'd be bound to consider a frivolous reason.† (source)exorbitant = a lot more than is reasonable or typical
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The office suited him; it contained nothing but the few pieces of furniture he needed, all of them harshly simplified down to their essential purpose, all of them exorbitantly expensive in the quality of materials and the skill of design.† (source)exorbitantly = in a manner that requires a lot more than is reasonable or typical
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The women, indeed, usually entered the church at once, and the farmers' wives talked in an undertone to each other, over the tall pews, about their illnesses and the total failure of doctor's stuff, recommending dandelion-tea, and other home-made specifics, as far preferable—about the servants, and their growing exorbitance as to wages, whereas the quality of their services declined from year to year, and there was no girl nowadays to be trusted any further than you could see her—about the bad price Mr. Dingall, the Treddleston grocer, was giving for butter, and the reasonable doubts that might be held as to his solvency, notwithstanding that Mrs. Dingall was a sensible woman, and they were† (source)exorbitance = the quality of being a lot more than is reasonable or typical
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Saeed bought a simple fishing rod, available for a less exorbitant price because its reel was broken and the line had to be spooled out and pulled back in by hand.† (source)exorbitant = a lot more than is reasonable or typical
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They had to pay exorbitant sums in key money and look for a new roof over their heads in the last weeks of October.† (source)
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Mia is the one who bought my guitar for some exorbitant sum, which means that Mia knew it was up for auction.† (source)
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That's a classic means of gaining leverage over girls: The debts mount with exorbitant interest rates, and when girls can't repay the loans, the trafficker sells them to a brothel.† (source)
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+ The salary was so attractive because I didn't have to pay exorbitant malpractice insurance.† (source)
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Always, the exorbitant demands rode upon military ventures.† (source)
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Even to Papi fifty bucks wasn't exorbitant but he was reluctant to part with it.† (source)
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