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- Dictionaryrapacious/rəˈpeɪʃəs/
adjective
- 1. aggressively greedy or grasping: "rapacious landlords"
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3 days ago · in a rapacious manner. DISCLAIMER: These example sentences appear in various news sources and books to reflect the usage of the word ‘rapaciously'.Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Vocabulary.com or its editors.
2 days ago · Following Gods. Jennifer Rose. Jul 07, 2024. (Previously published on Harvesting Stones .) At times I feel so heavily weighted with grief, fear, and despair about our world (and I mean our to include all people, all species, all life on this lovely, feverish planet suspended in the cool bed of space) and the apparent lack of sane, unified ...
1 day ago · Poverty under capitalism thus takes a specific form associated with insecurity and indignity that makes it particularly unbearable. There are roughly four proximate features of capitalist poverty. The first arises from the inviolability of contracts, which means that irrespective of their conditions, the poor have to pay whatever they are ...
1 day ago · Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity. Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g. apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices.
5 days ago · He hath caused his followers to Riot and do general violence against the dully constituted Government of this land and sought to replace the Rule of Law with his own rapacious appetite for self-aggrandizement, profit, lust, and profanity.
13 hours ago · Synopsis A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious assault on selfhood that our media have inflicted upon our lives.
5 days ago · Thematic adjectives of the type under discussion are often derived from verbal roots, so the posited **u̯l̥k w ós ‘marauding, rapacious’ or ‘ferocious, dangerous’ could belong to a root of the shape √**u̯elk w-. As we have seen, this could be continued formally in Goth. wilwan.
