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Word: extortionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Webster's New International Dictionary defines jew: "... To overreach by sharp practice, cheating or trickery; to practice imposition or extortion upon;- used opprobriously in allusion to practices imputed to the Jews by those who dislike them, or now sometimes colloquially without conscious reference to the Jews."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opprobriousness Deleted | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

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