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harpy
noun as in a greedy person
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Example Sentences
She turned upon the intruder with a curse, but Azalea had been right in believing that gold would loosen the old harpy's tongue.
A feather duster was stuck in for a tail, and his woolly head gave him the uncanny look of a black harpy.
There was the whole crew of the Harpy sloop, taken off here, treated in that way—that I know of to a certainty.
And the little girl struck and scratched and made a curdled face and echoed, “Harpy, your own self!”
"That harpy hopes to fleece us," said Dalrymple, slipping his arm through mine and drawing me towards the roulette table.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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