adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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rapacious real estate developers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gregory regarded these claims as being marks of particular wickedness, and he saw the Merovingians as being, for the most part, rapacious .
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In Shakespeare, hypocrisy is linked inseparably with that rapacious egoism that is willing to destroy all in order to advance itself.
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It was a horrendous, rapacious strategy that they had used to gain control of their own home system.
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The principle of rapacious egoism, Shakespeare shows, does not let up once it has achieved its first-formulated goal.
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Their officers, though more sophisticated, were equally rapacious .
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These factors must bulk larger in the explanation of depopulation than the sixteenth-century writers' scapegoat, the rapacious landlords.
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They haven't done anything about the rapacious exploitation of the poor in the ghetto.