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loan shark

NOUN
  1. someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest

How To Use loan shark In A Sentence

  • Was Robin Hood a loan shark?
  • His most lucrative business was gasoline bootlegging, but his activities extended to union kickbacks, gambling, loan sharks and white-collar fraud. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unable to get cheap credit on the high street, some of these people fall into the hands of pawnbrokers, impaired credit lenders and loan sharks.
  • I'm not interested in a debate, " replied the loan shark, as he ate anotIT piece of chocolate.
  • The whole episode confirms all your prejudices about payday loan sharks. Times, Sunday Times
  • What bank, loan shark, or regular citizen would fund a desperado living a hand-to-mouth existence under false pretenses? OUTCAST
  • loan sharks who exploit the poor by charging up to 1000% interest per year.
  • The whole episode confirms all your prejudices about payday loan sharks. Times, Sunday Times
  • People either saved up for major purchases or did without banks and relied on pawnbrokers, loan sharks and store credit instead.
  • I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark.
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