usurious
Definitions
Practicing usury; charging illegal or exorbitantly high interest rates on loans.
Relating to or characteristic of the practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates.
Examples
The loan shark was arrested for charging usurious interest rates to vulnerable families.
Many consumers are struggling to pay off their credit card debt due to the bank's usurious lending practices.
Synonyms
extortionate exorbitant predatory rapacious greedy excessive unconscionable