[ UK /ɹæpˈe‍ɪʃəs/ ]
[ US /ɹəˈpæʃɪs, ɹəˈpeɪʃɪs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. devouring or craving food in great quantities
    a rapacious appetite
    ravenous as wolves
    voracious sharks
    edacious vultures
  2. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
    a predatory bird
    raptorial birds
    a vulturine taste for offal
    the rapacious wolf
    ravening wolves
  3. excessively greedy and grasping
    ravening creditors
    a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
    paying taxes to voracious governments
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How To Use rapacious In A Sentence

  • Now the girl is also changing, consuming everything with such rapaciousness that it startles him. Until the Heart Stops Beating
  • So you'd think it would be sheltered from their rapaciousness.
  • It steals from the U.S. treasury as rapaciously to enrich the corporate elite. Printing: A Farewell to Arms: Why I Left "The Left'
  • This ending is as bleak as any in the history of tragic drama - death, rape, slavery, fire destroying the towers, the city's very name effaced from the record of history by the acts of rapacious and murderous Greeks.
  • This marks an interesting divide because women - especially California women - have certainly been willing and eager to vote for that other rapacious hound.
  • A decade of rapacious consolidation has made JPMorgan Chase the world's largest bank outside China.
  • This reading certainly invites us to look at Timon as an early modern critique of the growing and rapacious power of capitalism, which robs the aristocracy of its idealized form of patriarchy, based upon oligarchic, homosocial bonds.
  • a rapacious appetite
  • The problems of corporate governance are about much more than rapacious egotism.
  • I noticed they were experiencing the same things as many Papuans - they were in debt to rapacious moneylenders and held to ransom by unaccountable officials.
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