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On the flat arid plains below lives the farming community of the Bezaris, who are generally seen by the Hazerans as a group of privileged, cowardly usurers.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
In the American scheme of things, why is the usurer (i.e., the financial magnates on the covers of Business Week) thought to possess the rank of a duke and the loveliness of a child?
—Henry Freedland, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
And so the stereotype of the Jewish usurer first appears.
—Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
On Cordray’s watch, the CFPB won more than $12 billion in settlements for the victims of usurers like this.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Jan. 2018
Jews never belong enough anywhere to avoid vilification as parasites, vultures, usurers and traitors.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
In the American scheme of things, why is the usurer (i.e., the financial magnates on the covers of Business Week) thought to possess the rank of a duke and the loveliness of a child?
—Henry Freedland, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
And so the stereotype of the Jewish usurer first appears.
—Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
On Cordray’s watch, the CFPB won more than $12 billion in settlements for the victims of usurers like this.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Jan. 2018
Jews never belong enough anywhere to avoid vilification as parasites, vultures, usurers and traitors.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
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“Usurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/usurer. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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usurer
noun
usu·rer
ˈyü-zhər-ər 
ˈyüzh-rər
: one who lends money especially at a very high rate of interest
Legal Definition
usurer
noun
usu·rer
ˈyü-zhər-ər
: one that engages in usury
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