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The men are shirtless, rapacious heels, or sensitive pretty-boy disappointments.
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U.S. consumers have a rapacious appetite for products, especially imported ones.
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Insurance companies are rapacious and are not in the business of optimizing care.
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The Improvviso, his denunciation of the rapacious clergy, brought down the house.
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When they succeed, lesser folks regard them as excessively wealthy and rapacious.
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Posters sprang up around the country portraying Confucius as a rapacious villain.
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As you imply, Obama is already running ads calling Romney a rapacious capitalist.
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The practice of rapacious boundary-drawing dates back to the Founding Fathers.
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It's time to stop investing in an industry that is so rapacious and predatory.
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- Predatory: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
- Excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"
- Edacious: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
- (rapaciousness) greediness: an excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts); "the greediness of lawyers"
- (rapacity) edacity: extreme gluttony
- (rapacity) avarice: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- Voracious; avaricious; Given to taking by force or plundering; Subsisting off of live prey
- (rapacity) The quality of being rapacious; voracity
- [adj. ruh-PAE-shus] Rapacious describes someone who is given to plundering or taking things by force. Near synonyms include ravenous, voracious, and gluttonous. Example: "The serfs suffered in poverty while catering to the whims of the rapacious Lord. ...
