rapacious in the PONS Dictionary

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rapacious [or grasping] person
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Most of his books, even the more strictly historical ones, include such sharp criticism of the priorities of alleged radicals who represented merely extreme formations of a rapacious capitalist ethos.
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Financial globalisation has been marred by recurring problems with trade imbalances, excessive third-world debts, and rapacious demands on poor countries.
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Zombies have symbolized fear of depersonalization, mindless consumerism and humanity's raging, rapacious nature.
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Compare also the adjective rapacious which retains the generic meaning of greedy and grasping.
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Such linkage reinforces a growing popular perception that democratic political and market economic systems are merely code words for rapacious criminality.
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Lastly, governments are more rapacious, taking more in taxes.
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I hope that you prefer people's interests and justice to the rapacious demands of a selfish minority, make the best use of the chance and leave a good name...
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However, greed (as seen by the church) is applied to a very excessive or rapacious desire and pursuit of material possessions.
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She was seen as a greedy and rapacious by her contemporaries.
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Suddenly a rapacious bear came in front of the schoolgirl.
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