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rapacious
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synonyms: cupidity, covetiseness ???
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Definition:greedy; avaricious---n. Providence without industry. The thrift of power.Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary
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Combine the meddling of imperial powers with a rapacious cast of palagi beachcombers, deserters, and felons, and Apia featured the very worst of the social orbit he'd known in the West.
J. Maarten Troost. Headhunters on My Doorstep, p.253 (2013)
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The two girls were young enough to be great fun and not too rapacious for some kind of favor.
Mario Puzo. The Godfather, p.378 (1969)
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To get money she began selling her old gloves, her old hats, the old odds and ends, and she bargained rapaciously, her peasant blood standing her in good stead.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Maurepas, an old man who cared for nothing but himself, whose great object in government was to be without a rival, and whose art was made up of tact and gayety; and that of the rival factions of Lamballe and Polignac, guiding the queen, which were simply rapacious.
Edward Jackson Lowell. The Eve of the French Revolution
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Elizabeth was then hoping to be soon joined by him, when all her views were overthrown, by seeing him fall a victim to her mother's rapacity for whist players, and in a few moments after seated with the rest of the party.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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There were a million men who would have loved, honored, and obeyed Amy and considered themselves lucky to do so. Confident, self-assured, real men who wouldn't have forced her to pretend to be anything but her own perfect, rigid, demanding, brilliant, creative, fascinating, rapacious, megalomaniacself.
Men capable of being uxorious.
Gillian Flynn. Gone Girl, p.397 (2012)
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The chiefly system in Fiji was, at worst, a rapacious kleptocracy and, at best, a stubborn, ill-serving adherence to a colonial era that has long since vanished.
J. Maarten Troost. Getting Stoned with Savages (2006)
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