rapacious

Example Sentences

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Nowadays, they qualify as escapism confirming our assumptions about ridiculous, rapacious people, which is terribly fun.

From Salon

When their rapacious cousin Charles appears, hoping to find buried treasure in the house and romancing the “pink and white and golden” Constance, Merricat takes drastic action.

From The Wall Street Journal

There’s only one thing worse than being exploited by rapacious capitalists and that’s not being exploited by them.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Modi would do well to heed complaints by ordinary people in the world’s largest democracy and curb rapacious officials’ power to extract bribes.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the cynicism that has always thrummed underneath his high-concept comedies — the dehumanizing algorithms, the rapacious finance system — is more prominent in this slim, potent novel.

From Los Angeles Times