Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a rapacious manner; by rapine; by violent seizure.
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- adverb In a
rapacious manner,greedily , with greatappetite
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- adverb in a rapacious manner
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Examples
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Surely he would be astonished to see himself inflated into yet another biographical Gargantua, not to mention in a book that feeds rapaciously on his most unattractive if not repellent aspects: his obsessive, divided sexuality, his spectacular alcoholism, his failures as husband and father.
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He could feel those fingers worming into his brain, chewing into his thoughts and rapaciously digesting what they found.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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He could feel those fingers worming into his brain, chewing into his thoughts and rapaciously digesting what they found.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Here the humanoid on display was a rapaciously acquisitive creature engaged in elaborate and expensive mating rituals.
Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test Eric Felten 2011
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Especially against the doddering dairymaidens of surrender like that inveterate sleazehound KXF who so rapaciously libeled me!
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A very different beast has emerged since then -- a new future at once more rapaciously cold in its capitalism, more dominated by moral or religious issues, and less certain of further technological progress.
18 Non-Fiction Essays by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers 2008
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It steals from the U.S. treasury as rapaciously to enrich the corporate elite.
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We practically trip into a couple of graves which are the remains of various settlements of Russian Pomors, the hardy (mad?) walrus hunters who lived, rapaciously hunted - and often died - here in the 18th century.
Beth Kapusta: ...somewhere just south of the 79th parallel Beth Kapusta 2010
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If, wherever you look, you see people lining their pockets rapaciously, without any thought for what is right, then if you do the right thing, you are made to feel stupid.
Invasion of the booty snatchers: how greed is spreading out from the City 2010
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It steals from the U.S. treasury as rapaciously to enrich the corporate elite.
OpEdNews - Diary: A Farewell to Arms: Why I Left "The Left' 2010
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