rackrenter

Updated: August 19, 2026

Gryce's eyes and he became voluble, not to say violent. He, at any rate, had no doubt that the stories were true; he could testify, to his own knowledge, that they were true. Verner was not only a hard landlord, but a mean landlord, a robber as well as a rackrenter; any gentleman would be justified in hounding him out.

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton - The Man Who Knew Too Much