extortionately
adverb
disapprovinguk /ɪkˈstɔː.ʃən.ət.li/ us /ɪkˈstɔːr.ʃən.ət.li/
in a way that is extremely expensive: 牟取暴利地，敲诈勒索地
extortionately expensiveFirst-class travel is extortionately expensive.头等舱旅行非常昂贵。
He claimed that the car was extortionately overpriced.他声称这辆车的定价高得离谱。
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extortionate
The cost of train travel is extortionately high.
The goods being sold in the new market are extortionately priced.
These homes are extortionately expensive and I can’t afford to buy one.
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
exorbitant
gouge
pretty
price fixing
price someone out
price yourself out of the marketidiom
prohibitive
prohibitively
prohibitory
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