Adjective : a vulturine critic. From Dictionary.com.
If the people are this vulturous here I can only imagine the likes of Bombay and New Delhi!. From Wordnik.com. [indiankurtis Diary Entry] Reference
I mean, Lindsey Lohan moves from Africa and joins the normal vulturous (ph) jungle high school. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 3, 2004] Reference
And likewise, Mr. Letterman was back in the Ed Sullivan Theater, defending his staff from the vulturous press. From Wordnik.com. [Bizarre Late Night Love Triangle] Reference
Mount Caucasus of a bleak chain-cable, he gave himself postprandially, in full livery of seisin, to the vulturous sun. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
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). From Wordnik.com. [Karen Robinovitz: Stalkerazzi! How to Get Products in the Hands of Celebrities!] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [David A. Love: Absolute Corruption Is the Rule in America] Reference
The treacherous behavior of the Clinton administration during the conflict in Jugoslavia is dissected there as well as further vulturous behavior of our European 'humanitarians'. From Wordnik.com. [SHAM US PROPOSAL TO IRAN EVOKES MEMORIES OF PAST SIMILAR ONES] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Feed Them and Bleed Them] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Feed Them and Bleed Them] Reference
Every evening beginning about an hour before sundown, vultures by the dozens descend upon the pines of Wenonah in that inimitable vulturous way, soaring in with nary a wing flap, then suddenly alighting in a tree. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
In earlier posts I commented on the vulturous press. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
Crumbling factories are sold off to vulturous developers. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
Plantagenet Henry: the life of these men was not a vulturous. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present] Reference
Their vulturous appetites rendered them regardless of all else. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Hunters] Reference
Ye shall cease wholly to be barbarous vulturous Chactaws, and become noble European. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
Ye shall cease wholly to be barbarous vulturous Chactaws, and become noble European Nineteenth-Century Men. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present] Reference
I saw a hand which was a claw, a strong, shriveled thing with long, dirty nails and a vulturous suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [A Man and a Woman] Reference
Quackhood; the battle, with various weapons, of vulturous Quack and Tyrant against vulturous Tyrant and Quack?. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present] Reference
The empire itself is not that kingdom as such, but a vulturous empire per se, a creature of the Venetian tradition. From Wordnik.com. [LaRouche's Latest] Reference
Other columnists blamed the vulturous showbiz media for not heeding her pleas, however mute, and healing her wounds. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
But only men can discern it; mere building beavers, spinning arachnes, much more the predatory vulturous and vulpine species, do not discern it well!. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
But the threat is always changing, always mutating, always seeking new ways to lure the unsuspecting into the darkest, most vulturous corners of cyberspace. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Unchecked by battles, undaunted in lonesome spaces, ever unwearied by the vulturous years, the warriors of Camorak held on; and Arleon's inspiration led them still. From Wordnik.com. [A Dreamer's Tales] Reference
Among the creditors are not just vulturous hedge funds but "pensioners, teachers, credit unions, college endowments, retirement plans, and personal retirement accounts.". From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore Reporter] Reference
The riot spirit, so early and so frequent in that town, reposed upon such vulturous and self-conscious social pests as he, ever claiming to be the public tone of Maryland. From Wordnik.com. [The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times] Reference
But with the controversy still at full boil and the future of the mega-budget project in doubt in New Zealand, vulturous rivals - including Australia, Scotland, Ireland and the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
Man's History, was it not always even this: The cookery and eating-up of imbecile Dupedom by successful Quackhood; the battle, with various weapons, of vulturous Quack and Tyrant against vulturous. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
William Conqueror, William Rufus or Redbeard, Stephen Curthose himself, much more Henry Beauclerc and our brave Plantagenet Henry: the life of these men was not a vulturous Fighting; it was a valorous. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
A man of most flashing discernment and strong lion-heart, 265; not a vulturous Fighter, but a valorous Governor, 302. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
Scoresreport. com 5 hours ago - John Hollinger writes that vulturous general managers shouldn't get too excited about the possibility of prying Kevin Martin away from the Kings. From Wordnik.com. [BallHype - Top Sports News, Videos, and Blogs] Reference
These vulturous players are simply the best. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Super Bowl Predictions Pile Up - January 28, 2001] Reference
Australia's after the vulturous short sellers. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Fuller: Anybody Wanna Bail Out Some 401Ks?] Reference
Chris: http://www. vulturous.com/shiftwork. gif http://www. vulturous.com/draygos. gif. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews - Unreadable.....] Reference
Okay, I've put up something like what a Fall t-shirt should look like at: http://vulturous.com. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews] Reference
With vulturous acclamation, loud in lies. From Wordnik.com. [Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI] Reference
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