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Definition of Extortionately
1. Adverb. To an exorbitant degree. "Prices are exorbitantly high in the capital"
Definition of Extortionately
1. Adverb. In an extortionate manner; in a manner that greatly exceeds what is reasonable or moderate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Extortionately
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extortionately
Literary usage of Extortionately
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Weekly Reporter by David Sutherland, India High Court (Calcutta, India), Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1892)
"Hut in Section ft of Act VIII. of 1851, the word "extortionately " is also used.
... What we think to be the meaning of the word "extortionately" in Section ..."
2. Calendar of the Quarter Sessions Papers by John William Willis Bund (1900)
"In 1628 two indictments were preferred against the Curate of King's Norton, the
one for extortionately taking i2d. for solemnizing a marriage, and the other ..."
3. A Commentary on the Law of Agency and Agents by Francis Wharton (1876)
"Public officer liable to repay money extortionately collected. — As will be
presently more fully shown, a public officer may be compelled to pay back money ..."
4. Quarter Sessions Records by John Christopher Atkinson (1888)
"... above-named Thomas Dixon for extortionately receiving at the same time 10s.
as his fee, under colour of his office as messenger to the said Queen-mother ..."
5. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1902)
"... the Spanish and American occupation, it had proved a perfect bonanza to the
Sultan, who had taxed the twenty Chinese shopkeepers most extortionately. ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"He spends his time in “wringing each acre;” that is, in extortionately acquiring
one acre after anather. There lies-the point of the comparison. ..."
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