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What (who) is rapacious - definition
rapacious
If you describe a person or their behaviour as rapacious, you disapprove of their greedy or selfish behaviour. (FORMAL)
...a rapacious exploitation policy.
ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval]
rapacious
a.
1.
Raptorial, preying, predaceous.
2.
Ravenous, greedy, plundering.
3.
Avaricious, grasping, greedy.
Rapacious
·adj Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
II. Rapacious ·adj Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
III. Rapacious ·adj Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
Examples of use of rapacious
1. Some observers argue that teenagers are now just rapacious consumers, like the rest of us.
2. For instance, the super–casino won‘t be the rapacious Las Vegas–style den that some fear.
3. Africa is a rich continent made poor by rapacious western corporations.
4. There are alarm bells, such as the rapacious materialism and perilously high debt levels.
5. He sees blood as the prime lubricant for his rapacious domestic policies.