Adjective : a rapacious disposition. From Dictionary.com.
We are raising it sharply, alarmingly, rapaciously. From Wordnik.com. [We Are Raising Your Rate] Reference
She has shamelessly and rapaciously capitalised on her husband's position. From Wordnik.com. [Cherie Plumbs the Depths] Reference
It steals from the U.S. treasury as rapaciously to enrich the corporate elite. From Wordnik.com. [Michael J.W. Stickings: Chris Hedges and the Left-Wing Attack on Liberals, Liberalism, and Barack Obama] Reference
The NR Board slavered rapaciously for ever more profit, and drank from only one well. From Wordnik.com. [Review: The Crunch by Alex Brummer] Reference
So for years now, treasure hunters have rapaciously targeted the wrecks of the Indiamen. From Wordnik.com. [Pirates of the Atlantic] Reference
Was The Bank being rapaciously greedy when it loaned 380 dollars to a dog that had spent time in the pokey?. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Mulkerin: Fiscal Lessons from the Monopoly Man] Reference
The sea hereabout abounds with fish of various sorts, upon which several sharks were feeding most rapaciously. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
This is going to be rapaciously taken apart and reiterated and put into different variations for the next 24 hours. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2008] Reference
I am certain it is all show - if she was voted in she would be grasping for all the privs almost as rapaciously as Cherie. From Wordnik.com. [The Horny Handed Sons of Toil...] Reference
Especially against the doddering dairymaidens of surrender like that inveterate sleazehound KXF who so rapaciously libeled me!. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0] Reference
That said, tales of psychological woe and emotional duress I could read ceaselessly, even rapaciously, with medicative effect. From Wordnik.com. [At Night | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Reference
Growing up in a rapaciously capitalist society, Randy had gotten business advice drilled into him since the time he could walk. From Wordnik.com. [New Race] Reference
Now capitalism could behave more rapaciously without fear of contributing to Soviet ascendency, as the Soviets were on their way down. From Wordnik.com. [Our Future Can't be Like Our Past] Reference
The Hilton sisters, Paris and Nicky, twin-like in matching coral leather trenches and skimpy dresses, rapaciously ogling the runway studs. From Wordnik.com. [Strictly Sauvage] Reference
Had that been possible, they could still be rapaciously fleecing the public, but without bringing the whole system down around everyone's ears. From Wordnik.com. [Who Moved My Skull and Crossbones?] Reference
Balzac was right saying behind every great fortune is a crime (and most often a small fortune as seed money) but likely nowhere more rapaciously than in Russia. From Wordnik.com. [Reviewing James Petras' "Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire] Reference
There was general laughter at this, and Napier said with his quiet smile that we must resign ourselves to being regarded as callously irresponsible or rapaciously greedy. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman on the March]
It is further indication of the series 'impact that, very early in the series, Niagara Falls is described in terms of it having been rapaciously despoiled by commercialization. From Wordnik.com. [Edward J. Murray: America's Best Idea] Reference
His expression was as it were rapaciously furtive. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Veronica, a modern love story] Reference
Lejbele seized it in both bands, and began to devour it rapaciously. From Wordnik.com. [An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story] Reference
They're the most rapaciously merchandising entertainers ever to have existed. From Wordnik.com. [All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News] Reference
It steals from the U.S. treasury to enrich the corporate elite as rapaciously. From Wordnik.com. [Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] Reference
If you didn't think this is rapaciously punitive, I would like to know what to call it. From Wordnik.com. [Salem-News.com] Reference
Ellison has had no difficulty rapaciously acquiring firms he saw as vulnerable, like PeopleSoft. From Wordnik.com. [Forbes.com: News] Reference
Soldiers, gendarmes, chetes, government officials, and ordinary Turks and Kurds stole rapaciously. From Wordnik.com. [VQR] Reference
I should have dealt with them, not greedily or rapaciously, but on honest principles of fair barter. From Wordnik.com. [The Fitz-Boodle Papers] Reference
An end to industrial energy endeavors that are rapaciously tearing apart the ecology of this planet?. From Wordnik.com. [Countercurrents.org] Reference
Fight abortion by fighting the ungodly regime in Washington that rapaciously seeks to supplant both faith and family. From Wordnik.com. [LewRockwell.com] Reference
Mr. Slim's pending acquisition stands out precisely because it doesn't seem quite so rapaciously obsessed with status. From Wordnik.com. [All Stories | The New York Observer] Reference
Their kings were unjust; and rapaciously seizing on inheritances which were not their right, increased the numbers of the poor. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
And no less hideous were the animal-like forms of life, which slithered and slunk rapaciously through that fantastic pseudo-vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Triplanetary] Reference
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