shylock

• “State law uses "shylock" in a statute dealing with loan sharks, language that is "offensive to the Jewish people," said state Sen. Eleanor Sobel, a Democrat.”

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• “If you're like me, you'd rather work with your customers than play shylock, but at some point enough is enough.”

  Forbes: Make Them Pay

• “In "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich," a script that was a produced episode of the second incarnation of the Twilight Zone television show, a low-rent petty crook and shylock, Arky Lochner, makes an ill-advised deal with the Devil—well, a demon, at least, and his time is about to run out.”

  Cell Phonery

• “At the present time, Parisi had almost two million dollars on the street in shylock loans, which brought in close to twenty thousand a week in interest.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Big Scam

• “CAFFERTY: Take my taxes to a shylock and get them done before I go out, just based on that commercial.”

  CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2004

• “After the briefest of pauses, Reid launched into a long anecdote about a shylock named Salvatore Marriano who took payment in salted herring from a destitute fishmonger named Bernard Boyle.”

  Little Girl Blue

• “The man was known to occasionally shylock to businessmen and desperate oil wildcatters.”

  American Tabloid

• “I lived outdoors and put every damn good dime back into my business, then took out loans from every bank and shylock willing to lend money and bought damn good property -- damn good and cheap.”

  White Jazz

• “The third was to an indy shylock: seven thousand dollars at 20 percent, $8,400 due April 10 — his woman out of trouble, his gift for her grief: Gene Niles with his face blown off on her bed.”

  The Big Nowhere

• “At one point, as the three questioned the consultant's cleaning staff, the ex-shylock threatened to break their bones unless they confessed.”

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