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Extortionate

발음 /ɛkˈstɔːʃənət/ · 품사 형용사 (adjective)

가장 먼저 보는 뜻

한국어 뜻

검증된 한국어 뜻을 준비 중입니다. 확인되지 않은 자동 번역은 표시하지 않습니다.

영어 정의

Of, related to, or typifying extortion (“the practice of obtaining money or other property by the use of force or threats”)..

의미별 영어 정의

Of, related to, or typifying extortion (“the practice of obtaining money or other property by the use of force or threats”).
Greatly exceeding what is moderate or reasonable; exorbitant.

예문

Now it is certain the Roman prieſts are not only ſeemingly very religious and really very extortionate, but are extortionate by means of religion, and make their prayers and maſſes the grand pretence for their exactions.

It is said the daily increase in opium is owing to the negligence of officers in enforcing the interdicts? The laws and enactments are the means which extortionate underlings and worthless vagrants employ to benefit themselves; and the more complete the laws are, the greater and more numerous are the bribes paid to the extortionate underlings, and the more subtle are the schemes of such worthless vagrants.

English travellers who have visited Jerash may remember a handsome but extortionate and insolent Arab sheikh at Sûf, who demanded, and always with success, an extortionate sum as blackmail, for which he gave them an escort and protection during their visit to the ruins.

As regards food for police, it is much more satisfactory, in a new district, to have them fed by Government and not given money or trade goods in lieu of rations, as is often done. If they are allowed to buy their own food from the natives they will impose on the raw savage, and frequently abuse their authority by making extortionate demands under threat of punishment.

The moneylenders – sometimes so extortionate that people pledged their slaves and sacred relics – were Uighurs from the west.

Interrogational torture of the sort envisaged in the last paragraph—where P's close relatives are subject to brutal mistreatment to impel P to disclose some desired information—is itself a specimen of extortionate torture.

[Y]ou get from farms ſo occupied, houſe lamb, veal, graſs lamb, a little mutton, and leſs beef, whilſt for either article ſeparately, or jointly, you are worked up to pay prices, not leſt than extortionate; […]

[…] I have the satisfaction to think you are in good hands; M. Miret will not be extortionate: the first year's rent you already have in your savings; afterwards Miss Lucy must trust God, and herself.

단어 변화형

more extortionate
most extortionate

extortionate 동의어

extortionate 반의어

Extortionate 사용 팁

extortionate의 의미, 어조와 문법이 전체 문장에 맞을 때 사용하세요. 동의어라도 모든 문장에서 바로 바꿔 쓸 수 있는 것은 아닙니다.

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extortionate의 뜻은 무엇인가요?

현재 검증된 한국어 뜻은 준비 중이며 영어 정의는 “Of, related to, or typifying extortion (“the practice of obtaining money or other property by the use of force or threats”).”입니다.

extortionate의 동의어는 무엇인가요?

주요 동의어는 extortionable, extortionary, extortious, extortive입니다.

extortionate의 반의어는 무엇인가요?

가능한 반의어는 modest, unextortionate입니다.

extortionate를 문장에서 어떻게 쓰나요?