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shylock::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | loan shark, moneylender, usurer |
| Type of | lender, loaner, shark |
shylock::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of shylock
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Shylock is foiled, Portia reveals her identity, and Antonio's wealth is restored.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Shylock refuses Bassanio's offer of 6,000 ducats, twice the amount of the loan.
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Shylock was a moneylender, and usury was long held by Christians to be a horrific sin.
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Shylock is no longer on the scene, but his shadow looms over everything.
From the newsday.com
Shylock does not rewrite Shakespeare, nor add a word to the text.
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Shylock, the Jewish moneylender, is the villain of the piece.
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Shylock has Antonio arrested and brought before court.
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Shylock has always been one of my fav characters.
From the guardian.co.uk
That's the classic definition of a shylock.
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- Usurer: someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest
- A merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare
- Shylock is a fictional character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
- A financial racketeer who loans money at usurious interest rates. Often shylocks arrange payment terms that never reduce the loan principal. Those who fail to make regular payments to a skylock are disciplined with violence.
- It's difficult for some Jews to deal with the fact that the most famous writer in the English language William Shakespeare would write a play in which a Jewish man is depicted as a greedy loan shark. ...
