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rapacious
adjective
ra·pa·cious rə-ˈpā-shəs 
rapaciously adverb
rapaciousness noun
Example Sentences
nothing livens things up like a whole team of rapacious basketball players descending upon the pizza parlor rapacious mammals, such as coyotes, foxes, and bobcats
Recent Examples on the Web Shapiro excuses Clinton’s role in making budget balance the new Democratic credo, and in letting rapacious finance have its way with the economy, by pointing to the prosperity of the 1990s and crediting Clinton. 
Robert Kuttner, The New York Review of Books, 21 July 2022 Rising from the yoke of a military dictatorship that had promoted rapacious development of the Amazon, the country vowed a radical new approach to the environment. Terrence Mccoy, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022 Appropriated to suit the tastes of a conquering power, the juttis embody the rapacious nature of European colonialism during the Enlightenment, argues a small but evocative exhibition at the Bata Shoe Museum (BSM) in Toronto, Canada. Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2022 En route, the book offers us a gripping overview of humankind’s seemingly unstoppable evolution from primitive but harmless nomad to the rapacious bureaucrat in charge of civic planning in your neighborhood today. Elizabeth Lowry, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022 Calling out activist investors, seen by many as the most rapacious of capitalists and not a bunch of ESG sissies, nicely illustrates just how complicated this topological space is. Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 3 June 2022 And nonprofits can behave just as poorly as any rapacious robber baron. Darius Tahir, Fortune, 18 May 2022 But few think those goals can be reached without curbing rapacious cattle ranching. Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022 Unprincipled and rapacious people at the top won’t act differently because of a theoretical system. Erik Sherman, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021 See More
Robert Kuttner, The New York Review of Books, 21 July 2022 Rising from the yoke of a military dictatorship that had promoted rapacious development of the Amazon, the country vowed a radical new approach to the environment. Terrence Mccoy, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022 Appropriated to suit the tastes of a conquering power, the juttis embody the rapacious nature of European colonialism during the Enlightenment, argues a small but evocative exhibition at the Bata Shoe Museum (BSM) in Toronto, Canada. Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2022 En route, the book offers us a gripping overview of humankind’s seemingly unstoppable evolution from primitive but harmless nomad to the rapacious bureaucrat in charge of civic planning in your neighborhood today. Elizabeth Lowry, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022 Calling out activist investors, seen by many as the most rapacious of capitalists and not a bunch of ESG sissies, nicely illustrates just how complicated this topological space is. Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 3 June 2022 And nonprofits can behave just as poorly as any rapacious robber baron. Darius Tahir, Fortune, 18 May 2022 But few think those goals can be reached without curbing rapacious cattle ranching. Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022 Unprincipled and rapacious people at the top won’t act differently because of a theoretical system. Erik Sherman, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
Latin rapāc-, rapāx "given to seizing or catching things (as prey), carrying away, excessively grasping" (from rapere "to seize and carry off" + -āc-, -āx, deverbal suffix denoting habitual or successful performance) + -ious — more at rapid entry 1, audacious
First Known Use
1651, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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