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Definition of rapacious in English: rapaciousadjective rəˈpeɪʃəsrəˈpeɪʃəs Aggressively greedy or grasping. 贪婪的；掠夺的，强取的 贪婪的房东。 Example sentencesExamples - Within them, stories unfold about gangsters, unsuccessful cowboys and rapacious music producers.
- When he carried out a train robbery, he claimed he was defending the small farmer against rapacious railroad magnates.
- While I do not condone some of the more rapacious acts of Australian companies, I am not so sanguine about local small scale operators either.
- Instead of spurning these rapacious advances, local authorities were demanding a permanent share of the profits.
- They were revealed instead as rapacious asset-strippers.
- I've always thought of Sydney as ravenous, rapacious and ruthless.
- The John Leslie case exposes the media at its sleaziest and most rapacious.
- Janofsky alludes to federally mandated spending and to rapacious tax cutting by the states.
- From Seattle to Phnom Penh, protesters are fighting the incursion of supposedly rapacious multinational corporations.
- The rapacious company bullied and bought its way into poorer countries by making false promises of cheap fuel supplies.
- Even predictable repetitions of the same deception fail to open the eyes of the people to see through the façade of rapacious and false religiosity.
- But this socialist market is just as rapacious as any other.
- The problems of corporate governance are about much more than rapacious egotism.
- The economy is collapsing, because of international policies, which are rapacious and stupid.
- He drew the link between control over society's resources by a small wealthy elite and this rapacious policy.
- It is quite breathtaking to realise quite how rapacious the industry is and how conceited and vapid are its practitioners.
- Now there are rapacious landlords getting paid by the city to house homeless families.
- Our lack of a bill of rights makes it extremely difficult for judges to protect our freedoms from a rapacious government intent on destroying them.
- Where this leaves the more rapacious companies remains to be seen.
- He ignores the fact that workers need the full freedom to organise to defend themselves against the rapacious greed of their employers.
Synonyms grasping, greedy, avaricious, acquisitive, covetous, mercenary, materialistic, insatiable, predatory, voracious, usurious, extortionate informal money-grubbing North American informal grabby
Derivativesadverb rəˈpeɪʃəslirəˈpeɪʃəsli He seemed to have gained a greater self-confidence from the incredible and unexpected success of his book and he capitalized on it rapaciously. Example sentencesExamples - They have been described as ‘locusts’, rapaciously enriching themselves at the expense of ordinary investors.
- The reality is that we are rapaciously destroying ecosystems and burning fossil fuels as if there were no tomorrow.
- In our modern era, rapaciously expanding industry and a growing population continue to threaten the world's delicate ecological balance, proof of a relationship out of kilter with nature and the elements.
- Automobile transport is used wastefully, rapaciously.
noun rəˈpeɪʃəsnəsrəˈpeɪʃəsnəs His narrative is one of unmitigated Spanish rapaciousness and violence and Indian innocence and moral purity. Example sentencesExamples - Unless there is some liability cap on the rapaciousness of these individuals, the drug companies cannot prudently go forward.
- Both stories exemplify the rapaciousness that is the norm in our money-obsessed culture.
- So you'd think it would be sheltered from their rapaciousness.
- Are the legends of their rapaciousness quite fair?
OriginMid 17th century: from Latin rapax, rapac- (from rapere 'to snatch') + -ious. RhymesAthanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, ostentatious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious Definition of rapacious in US English: rapaciousadjectiverəˈpāSHəsrəˈpeɪʃəs Aggressively greedy or grasping. 贪婪的；掠夺的，强取的 贪婪的房东。 Example sentencesExamples - He ignores the fact that workers need the full freedom to organise to defend themselves against the rapacious greed of their employers.
- Instead of spurning these rapacious advances, local authorities were demanding a permanent share of the profits.
- The economy is collapsing, because of international policies, which are rapacious and stupid.
- The problems of corporate governance are about much more than rapacious egotism.
- When he carried out a train robbery, he claimed he was defending the small farmer against rapacious railroad magnates.
- He drew the link between control over society's resources by a small wealthy elite and this rapacious policy.
- Where this leaves the more rapacious companies remains to be seen.
- The John Leslie case exposes the media at its sleaziest and most rapacious.
- Even predictable repetitions of the same deception fail to open the eyes of the people to see through the façade of rapacious and false religiosity.
- Now there are rapacious landlords getting paid by the city to house homeless families.
- Janofsky alludes to federally mandated spending and to rapacious tax cutting by the states.
- While I do not condone some of the more rapacious acts of Australian companies, I am not so sanguine about local small scale operators either.
- They were revealed instead as rapacious asset-strippers.
- From Seattle to Phnom Penh, protesters are fighting the incursion of supposedly rapacious multinational corporations.
- The rapacious company bullied and bought its way into poorer countries by making false promises of cheap fuel supplies.
- But this socialist market is just as rapacious as any other.
- I've always thought of Sydney as ravenous, rapacious and ruthless.
- Our lack of a bill of rights makes it extremely difficult for judges to protect our freedoms from a rapacious government intent on destroying them.
- It is quite breathtaking to realise quite how rapacious the industry is and how conceited and vapid are its practitioners.
- Within them, stories unfold about gangsters, unsuccessful cowboys and rapacious music producers.
Synonyms grasping, greedy, avaricious, acquisitive, covetous, mercenary, materialistic, insatiable, predatory, voracious, usurious, extortionate
OriginMid 17th century: from Latin rapax, rapac- (from rapere ‘to snatch’) + -ious. |