Synonyms of highway robbery

highway robbery

noun

as in extortion

the exaction of a grossly excessive charge for goods or services

what some rock superstars charge for concert tickets is simply highway robbery

Synonyms & Similar Words

• extortion
• cheating
• gouging
• fleecing
• overcharging
• swindling
• defrauding
• skinning
• chiseling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of highway robbery

In March 1829, he was convicted in London on two counts of highway robbery and sentenced to fourteen years. — Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

Three games into his Colorado Rapids tenure, the club paying $125,000 in General Allocation Money — less than the going price of an international roster slot — is looking like highway robbery. — Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2025

This was a dangerous situation and was literally highway robbery. — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2025

Hospitals have gotten away with this sort of highway robbery for years, thanks to a combination of consolidation and misleading arguments. — Craig M. Wax, Boston Herald, 13 June 2025

To me, one meant highway robbery and the other meant equal pain, equal pleasure. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2025

This highway robbery of our funds directly out of our bank account is a betrayal of everyone who calls New York City home. — Maria Ramirez Uribe, Austin American Statesman, 10 Feb. 2025

The Nets‘ famous offseason trade with the Knicks — centered around Mikal Bridges — looks more like highway robbery each day. — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025

Jerry showed no sign of clocking their absence, though Bill wasn’t watching too closely—an act of moral highway robbery, maybe, but what was depredation if not an escape from the mundane? — Hazlitt, 9 Dec. 2024