Definition of rapacious in English:
rapacious
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adjective
Aggressively greedy or grasping.
‘rapacious landlords’- ‘Now there are rapacious landlords getting paid by the city to house homeless families.’
- ‘He drew the link between control over society's resources by a small wealthy elite and this rapacious policy.’
- ‘The economy is collapsing, because of international policies, which are rapacious and stupid.’
- ‘He ignores the fact that workers need the full freedom to organise to defend themselves against the rapacious greed of their employers.’
- ‘I've always thought of Sydney as ravenous, rapacious and ruthless.’
- ‘Our lack of a bill of rights makes it extremely difficult for judges to protect our freedoms from a rapacious government intent on destroying them.’
- ‘But this socialist market is just as rapacious as any other.’
- ‘From Seattle to Phnom Penh, protesters are fighting the incursion of supposedly rapacious multinational corporations.’
- ‘Even predictable repetitions of the same deception fail to open the eyes of the people to see through the façade of rapacious and false religiosity.’
- ‘While I do not condone some of the more rapacious acts of Australian companies, I am not so sanguine about local small scale operators either.’
- ‘They were revealed instead as rapacious asset-strippers.’
- ‘Janofsky alludes to federally mandated spending and to rapacious tax cutting by the states.’
- ‘Instead of spurning these rapacious advances, local authorities were demanding a permanent share of the profits.’
- ‘The problems of corporate governance are about much more than rapacious egotism.’
- ‘Within them, stories unfold about gangsters, unsuccessful cowboys and rapacious music producers.’
- ‘When he carried out a train robbery, he claimed he was defending the small farmer against rapacious railroad magnates.’
- ‘It is quite breathtaking to realise quite how rapacious the industry is and how conceited and vapid are its practitioners.’
- ‘The rapacious company bullied and bought its way into poorer countries by making false promises of cheap fuel supplies.’
- ‘Where this leaves the more rapacious companies remains to be seen.’
- ‘The John Leslie case exposes the media at its sleaziest and most rapacious.’
grasping, greedy, avaricious, acquisitive, covetous, mercenary, materialistic, insatiable, predatory, voracious, usurious, extortionateView synonyms
Pronunciation
Origin
Late 16th century from Latin rapax, rapacii- (from rapere ‘to snatch’) + -ous.
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