unconscionableformaldisapproving

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

costing a lot of money
expensiveHe thinks he's special with his expensive suits and fancy shoes.
dearUKI find the veg too dear in that supermarket.
costlyThey made several costly mistakes, including spending $60 million on shoddy machinery.
priceyThe restaurants in town are a bit pricey.
exclusiveThey have an apartment in an exclusive part of town.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Costing too much
bottomless pit
capital intensive
cheap
cheap at half the priceidiom
cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom
cost someone a pretty pennyidiom
cost someone dearidiom
costliness
daylight robbery
dear
gouge
outprice
overcharge
pretty
price fixing
price someone out
price yourself out of the marketidiom
prohibitive
prohibitively
sight

exorbitant | American Dictionary

exorbitant
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɪɡˈzɔr·bə·t̬ənt/
(of prices and demands) much too large:
The hotel charges were exorbitant.

exorbitant | Business English

exorbitant
adjective
 COMMERCEuk /ɪɡˈzɔːbɪtənt/us
an exorbitant price, demand, etc., is much too large:
The interest charged on most credit cards is exorbitant.
an exorbitant price/fee/rate

Examples of exorbitant

exorbitant
However, manual creation of verb classifications comes at exorbitant expense, requiring large amounts of human time and expertise.
Catering for the poor in legal matters in a market in which legal fees are exorbitant is hardly something that the government can resist.
Exorbitant fees were charged for retrieving these beasts, cash that had to be borrowed from traders at the cost of yet further indebtedness.
Not everyone who could demand an exorbitant dowry does so, and not everyone who demands, gets what is expected.
The number of footnotes, often digressive, in the first chapter may be considered exorbitant by some readers, but others may like it.
When professionals are found liable, courtroom verdicts appear random, unfair, and exorbitant.
These findings, although strengthening the case that landlords did not charge exorbitant escalating rents, do not comply with notions of good estate management.
We already have an exorbitant amount of paperwork which decreases actual patient contact.
Production growth has come about largely in irrigated agriculture, and the government is increasingly concerned about the exorbitant use of fertilisers in these areas.
Railway workers and sometimes soldiers sold pails of water or hats filled with water for exorbitant prices.
The exorbitant charge of £57 will be enough to frighten off all but the most dedicated (and well-heeled) scholar or performer.
This might seem like an exorbitant list of criteria to exclude but the approach is not unlike how a clinician proceeds in excluding possible alternative diagnoses of a sleep problem.
Landlords were demanding exorbitant rents of three or four bushels of barley an acre or offering share cropping agreements for land formerly rented at 4d, 8d, or 12d an acre.
Reject exorbitant reimbursement for telemedicine services or any kickbacks for getting or giving referrals.
If the artwork had been of a higher standard, the £90 price tag would not seem so exorbitant.
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