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Rapacious means (also figurative) Voracious; avaricious..
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/ɹəˈpeɪ.ʃəs/ · adjective
(also figurative) Voracious; avaricious..
To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.
Relations between the Waveney Valley Railway and the E.C.R. [Eastern Counties Railway] soon became strained, because of the rapacious attitude adopted by the latter, and to the mismanagement which it displayed in working the smaller company's line.
Big Tech companies, on the other hand, have proven themselves to be rapacious capitalists—they take as much as they can and ask for permission later.
The rapacious maw of our despair
A Prince […] sooner becomes hated by being rapacious and by interfering with the property and with the women of his subjects, than in any other way.
Even the rapacious birds appeared to comprehend the nature of the ceremony, for […] they once more began to make their airy circuits above the place[…]
Use rapacious when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rapacious means (also figurative) Voracious; avaricious..
Common synonyms include acquisitive, avaricious, cormorant, covetous.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.
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