The price of books nowadays is extortionate.

sex extortion extortionate adjective disapproving extremely expensive: The price of books nowadays is extortionate. extortionate adjective disapproving more expensive than is reasonable: extortionate fee/price/rate, etc. Most retailers charge extortionate prices for extended warranties - often more than three times as much as an independent provider. extortionately adverb uk/ɪkˈstɔːʃənətli/ us/-ˈstɔːr-/ The government has agreed on measures that protect the renewable energy industry from extortionately high national grid access charges. extortionate Many pensions carry extortionate charges and are often inflexible. When out-of-state companies invested in irrigation systems, they set extortionate rates for water. He also justifies his stance on economic grounds by alluding to extortionate policies by the colonial power, which also affected his large clientele. However, her extortionate rule and the expansion of her relatives' power stirred up much animosity. From the Cambridge English Corpus Their reluctance was reinforced by the popular belief that trading on the black market, unless done at extortionate rates, was not a crime, whatever the legal code said. Would a settler on one of the public tracts have access to water from a railroad tract, or might the railroad sell the water at extortionate prices? I have already said that it is most difficult for the law courts to say when extortionate rents are being exacted. Would he look at this again and make those county councils which have demanded this extortionate blackmail hand back their ill-gotten gains? It might get some inferior coal, which the general public seem to think is being foisted on it at extortionate prices.