rapacious
Example Sentences
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While still in New Zealand, suffocating in suburban Wellington, she had described herself as a “restless soul” with “a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.”
Threaded with fiddle, piano and lead vocal by his son Jaime, “Nashville Skyline” is an elegy for Nashville’s rapacious gentrification as well as a love lost to time.
From Los Angeles Times
He’s similar to Adam Sandler’s rapacious jeweler in “Uncut Gems,” except that scoundrel contained his damage to the Diamond District and people as shady as him.
From Los Angeles Times
Parkanyi vets every submission, weeding out couples who appear rapacious for money, or those who demand a specific type of foreigner.
Nowadays, they qualify as escapism confirming our assumptions about ridiculous, rapacious people, which is terribly fun.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
