Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like or characteristic of a vulture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a vulture; rapacious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the features of a
vulture ; especially those of beingrapacious ,greedy , orscavenging .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
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Examples
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It does say a lot about the awarding committees that the unfeeling--vampirish and vulturous--narrator in Olds's poetry is taken as the paragon of womanhood these days.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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The report, the product of a two-year investigation, paints the firm as Exhibit A of Wall Street's evolution from a place that raises and deploys capital to worthy businesses into a vulturous creature that preys on unwitting investors.
Goldman Sachs Ripped Off And Misled Clients, Senate Report Says 2011
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It does say a lot about the awarding committees that the unfeeling--vampirish and vulturous--narrator in Olds's poetry is taken as the paragon of womanhood these days.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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A few days after HRW released its report, a gathering of vulturous poverty pimps known as the Development Assistance Group (DAG) representing donor states issued a statement denying the undeniable.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Feed Them and Bleed Them Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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A few days after HRW released its report, a gathering of vulturous poverty pimps known as the Development Assistance Group DAG representing donor states issued a statement denying the undeniable.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Feed Them and Bleed Them Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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As for the musical's other antique qualities, we're not even going to get into the slightly creepy circumstances of Cable's liaison with gentle, younger-than-springtime Liat, arranged by her vulturous mother, the trinket peddler Bloody Mary.
Smooth sailing Peter Marks 2010
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And likewise, Mr. Letterman was back in the Ed Sullivan Theater, defending his staff from the vulturous press.
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And likewise, Mr. Letterman was back in the Ed Sullivan Theater, defending his staff from the vulturous press.
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Many of the aforementioned agencies do gift suites at award shows where your product is there for the taking (hoarding - it is a vulturous experience).
Karen Robinovitz: Stalkerazzi! How to Get Products in the Hands of Celebrities! 2009
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But to dismiss them as exceptions to the rule, rather than products of a systemic, vulturous culture that must be attacked, is to choose a perilous path.
David A. Love: Absolute Corruption Is the Rule in America 2009
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