exorbitant

He charged a fee, sometimes quite an exorbitant one, to those who could afford it, and helped others for free.

I was most surprised at the exorbitant price and the variety of seats.

The Duomo at Milan was squat, ugly, overrated, and the hotel charges in that city were most exorbitant.

And not in thirty years was it disputed, or held to be exorbitant.

Its consequence was the natural one: she borrowed; but she borrowed upon bad terms, indeed on the most exorbitant usury.

All of the landlords have a store, so as to furnish their tenants with goods of an inferior quality at exorbitant prices.