extortionate
ik stawr shuh nuht
- s greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
extortionate prices
- Nehru's socialist government shackled them with stifling controls, and tax rates became extortionate.
- The uniforms cost an extortionate $165 each and were sold exclusively by a factory owned by one of the Emperor's wives.
- The peasantry revolted against extortionate tax gathering by armed Soviet agents; but city-insurrectionists rose because of oppressive government by the local Soviets (committees.