rapacious
/rəˈpeɪʃəs
/adjective
Aggressively greedy or grasping: rapacious landlords...
- Now there are rapacious landlords getting paid by the city to house homeless families.
- He drew the link between control over society's resources by a small wealthy elite and this rapacious policy.
- The economy is collapsing, because of international policies, which are rapacious and stupid.
Synonyms
grasping, greedy, avaricious, acquisitive, covetous, mercenary, materialistic, insatiable, predatory, voracious, usurious, extortionate
informal money-grubbing
North American informal grabby
Derivatives
rapaciously
/ adverb ...- The reality is that we are rapaciously destroying ecosystems and burning fossil fuels as if there were no tomorrow.
- He seemed to have gained a greater self-confidence from the incredible and unexpected success of his book and he capitalized on it rapaciously.
- Automobile transport is used wastefully, rapaciously.
rapaciousness
- Both stories exemplify the rapaciousness that is the norm in our money-obsessed culture.
- His narrative is one of unmitigated Spanish rapaciousness and violence and Indian innocence and moral purity.
- So you'd think it would be sheltered from their rapaciousness.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin rapax, rapac- (from rapere 'to snatch') + -ious.
Rhymes
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