rapacious

Example Sentences

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She softens the character’s steely edges, turning a proud and almost rapacious woman into a mere doting mom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

"The Moment" satirises the consequences of her hit 2024 album "brat", as rapacious record company executives and a film director played by Alexander Skarsgard seek to jump on the juggernaut.

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

Mr. Abraham forges a solid path between an initial tender-if-cocky attitude and increasing anxiety and frustration at Jackie’s rapacious spending.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

Even in the triumph of the worst, which is the age of robber barons and the age of rapacious capitalism and imperialism, even those things were being contested.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

Considering now, in contrast, the characteristics of Commodus, Severus, Antoninus Caracalla, and Maximinus, you will find them extremely cruel and extremely rapacious.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli