Ladybirds are a most welcome visitor to the garden, with their rapacious appetite for aphids. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
A rapacious divorcee on the prowl. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Health insurance companies are "rapacious," Rockefeller said, pointing to industry practices such as rescinding policies or jacking up premiums when people get sick. From Wordnik.com. [Home/News] Reference
Nothing was too small or great for his rapacious maw. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Soon rapacious businessmen arrived from as far away as Bangkok. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble In Paradise] Reference
They blame the delta's problem on rapacious government officials. From Wordnik.com. [Oil, Guns And Fury In The Delta] Reference
The ruins of the resort are now covered in rapacious island vegetation creeping in from the jungle. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: July 13, 2003 - July 19, 2003 Archives] Reference
Historically, Third World countries have been at the mercy of Western monetary policy, including what many call the rapacious banking ideology perpetrated by the “World Bank.”. From Wordnik.com. [New Shoes on Old Debt-Current economic woes have 1980's roots] Reference
MR. LOCKHART: Jake's going to tell me what "rapacious" means -- no, I know what it means. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference
Men wanting to inspire the kind of rapacious passion Edward does might try reading the Twilight novels. From Wordnik.com. [Devra Maza: A Twilight Seduction: What Men Can Learn From Edward] Reference
Others will be "rapacious," engaging in a vicious competition to seize and exploit new star systems first. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
Men wanting to inspire that kind of rapacious passion might try reading the novels by Stephenie Meyer on which the Twilight films are based. From Wordnik.com. [Devra Maza: A Twilight Seduction: What Men Can Learn From Edward] Reference
Tamar Singer, a freelance anesthesiologist who received several of the letters, calls the city "rapacious" and has stopped working and shopping there. From Wordnik.com. [Beverly Hills and Surgeons] Reference
Their focus was solely on consolidating the Hindus, who had become effete in their view, against the "rapacious". From Wordnik.com. [Communalism Watch] Reference
The desire to consummate deals is "rapacious" in med-tech, according to Phil Nalbone, an analyst with WedBush Securities. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
If so, it might be a combination of "rapacious" and "audacious" or "radically" and "rapacious," all of which would accurately capture the sentiment of the passage. From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates] Reference
Cameron's Conservatism isn't remotely Thatcherite, and doesn't revolve around personal prosperity, any kind of rapacious entrepreneurial spirit or the cult of the individual. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Countess, to defend his rights against the rapacious Gaveston. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
The anti-Bill faction depicts Microsoft as a rapacious monopolist. From Wordnik.com. [Bureaucracy Vs. Behemoth] Reference
A seething cloud of arcuated eyes and rapacious beaks, they darken the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Harlequin] Reference
Dixon Hartnell is the rapacious czar of a commodities-futures trading empire. From Wordnik.com. [Lust And The Middle-Aged Lawyer] Reference
But such was the rapacious spirit of individuals, that it could be curbed by no authority. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
Even rapacious media barons and public companies can protect journalistic values when motivated. From Wordnik.com. [Dubious New Models for News] Reference
In Anyango's hands, tree roots become tentacles, and the leaves of succulent plants, rapacious tongues. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, David Zane Mairowitz and Catherine Anyango] Reference
"Without doubt, the weakest of that noble herd will make a supper for their rapacious foes," said Howe. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
But in these rapacious times, his GOP leadership colleagues rushed off the floor to plot the succession. From Wordnik.com. [Washington At War] Reference
This is usually the result of local greed; but the tourist, not the rapacious developer, gets most of the blame. From Wordnik.com. [Guests Welcome] Reference
Our nation's public colleges and universities also end up being harmed by the rapacious growth of the for-profits. From Wordnik.com. [Gail Mellow: Racing to the Bottom With For-Profit Colleges] Reference
But we have a government that favors rapacious unregulated capitalism and companies that very much want to show great quarters. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Cramer’s Mad, Mad World] Reference
All to the rapacious benefit of the Wall Street Mergers and Acquisition teams and their banking enablers, and the hedge fund honchos. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond J. Learsy: Wall Street Guiding America Toward Third World Status, and Instructing China As Well] Reference
The time had now come for the creatures to make a stand, deter trespass and intrusions by those rapacious and insatiableerect worms. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Park (Part II)] Reference
Kabila's rebel army chased dictator Mobutu Sese Seko from power in 1997, and the demise of Mobutu's rapacious regime was widely celebrated. From Wordnik.com. [When Friends Become Enemies] Reference
In 2003, Walt's nephew, Roy Disney, resigned from the Disney board, accusing Eisner of turning Disney into a "rapacious, soulless" company. From Wordnik.com. [The Upside of Ego] Reference
The best comparisons stretch from the 1920s back to the 19th century, when American capitalism seemed particularly rapacious and single-minded. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Price Of The Slide] Reference
Patty Hewes (Glenn Close), the rapacious class-action lawyer of Damages, is taking on a Madoffesque Ponzi schemer in the show's third season, which premieres this month. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Reality TV] Reference
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