rapacious in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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rapacious [Brit rəˈpeɪʃəs, Am rəˈpeɪʃəs] ADJ

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rapacious in the PONS Dictionary

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rapacious [rəˈpeɪʃəs] ADJ form

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Sow the same seed of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

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Suddenly a rapacious bear came in front of the schoolgirl.

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He did not reign for long, however, and his reign was spent mostly in war for his usurped throne; wars in which he was rapacious.

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We're the government, its worst face -- the rapacious creditor, the stern parent...

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The mountain fauna was particularly rich in precious and rapacious birds.

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Poor people do not have to suffer as a photogenic witness against the rapacious elite.

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In any armed organization, credibility may be restored by purging the organization of its rapacious members.

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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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Compare also the adjective rapacious which retains the generic meaning of greedy and grasping.

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Since his time, subsequent administrations practiced with fidelity and enthusiasm what he called subservience and colonial mentality, most of them with greed and rapacious intents.

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