rapacious in English
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Use "rapacious" in a sentence
1. He looked somehow rapacious.
2. Their officers, though more sophisticated, were equally rapacious.
3. He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup.
4. Hawks and other rapacious birds prey on variety of small animals.
5. Hawks and other rapacious birds may be killed at any time.
6. Their princes have been like rapacious lions, arrogantly disregarding righteousness.
7. Utterly defenseless, great Auks were killed by rapacious hunters for food and bait
8. But Mr Stone is more interested in skewering rapacious financiers than rash homeowners.
9. A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores
10. Avaricious, acquisitive, covetous, rapacious, grasping, venal, Cupidinous, materialistic, mercenary, predatory, usurious, possessive
11. Synonyms for Cupidinous include greedy, acquisitive, avaricious, grasping, covetous, rapacious, grabby, materialistic, mercenary and venal
12. Mr Brown said there was also a global perspective to America's rapacious model of consumption.
13. No nation omits to record the actions of their ancestors, however bloody, savage and rapacious.
14. English words for Avide include eager, greedy, avid, hungry, grasping, rapacious, predatory, voracious, acquisitive and solicitous
15. Her princes were like rapacious “roaring lions,” and her judges were comparable to ravenous “wolves.”
16. They haven't done anything about the rapacious exploitation of the poor in the ghetto.sentence dictionary
17. Those were not the consideration that drove this rapacious beast from his den into the open!
18. Most of this is accumulated interest on loans borrowed by rapacious dictators of the past.
19. A decade of rapacious consolidation has made JPMorgan Chase the world's largest bank outside China.
20. For many Chinese, daily life remains a grim struggle and their government rapacious, arbitrary and corrupt.
21. The war on coal is not just political rhetoric, or a paranoid fantasy Concocted by rapacious polluters
22. 16 Figuratively speaking, no lion or any other rapacious beast was to be found on this highway.
23. The principle of rapacious egoism, Shakespeare shows, does not let up once it has achieved its first-formulated goal.
24. 18 It was a horrendous, rapacious strategy that they had used to gain control of their own home system.
25. In Shakespeare, hypocrisy is linked inseparably with that rapacious egoism that is willing to destroy all in order to advance itself.
26. But, moreover, the scale of the concern with Reynolds, such as it is presented, is Contemptibly narrow for a rapacious speculating secretary of the treasury
27. About Corporate Hampton DeVille is a soulless conglomerate that sinks its rapacious claws into everything from arming clandestine wars to exploiting protesters
28. Avaricious, covetous, greedy, rapacious share the sense of desiring to possess more of something than one already has or might in normal circumstances be entitled to.
29. Avaricious, covetous, greedy, rapacious share the sense of desiring to possess more of something than one already has or might in normal circumstances be entitled to.
30. ‘these little Beasties only have three wheels’ ‘Of course, being the rapacious little beastie it is, the site always needs more submissions - get scribbling today and give my creative juices a rest!’
31. Jehovah exhibited his Sovereign power by holding in abeyance the aggressive, rapacious powers of Assyria and Babylon until his own due time, even maneuvering them so that they acted in fulfillment of his prophecies.
32. All we need to do is close our financial borders, wipe out mortgages, create a Ministry of Retail banking and send off the avaricious, acquisitive, covetous, rapacious, grasping, venal, Cupidinous*, materialistic, mercenary, predatory, usurious, possessive; grabbing, hoarding foreign banksters and sit back, put on the kettle, spark up the vape
33. assailant: 1 n someone who attacks Synonyms: aggressor , assaulter , attacker Types: show 19 types hide 19 types ambusher an attacker who waits in a concealed position to launch a surprise attack avenger , retaliator someone who takes vengeance beast , brute , savage , wildcat , wolf a cruelly rapacious person bludgeoner an assailant who