Synonym: edacious, esurient, predatory, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish. Similar words: capacious, vivacious, sagacious, salacious, fallacious, audacious, voracious, mendacious. Meaning: [rə'peɪʃəs] 
adj. 1. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey 2. excessively greedy and grasping 3. devouring or craving food in great quantities.
adj. 1. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey 2. excessively greedy and grasping 3. devouring or craving food in great quantities. 
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1. Their officers, though more sophisticated, were equally rapacious.
2. The principle of rapacious egoism, Shakespeare shows, does not let up once it has achieved its first-formulated goal.
3. It was a horrendous, rapacious strategy that they had used to gain control of their own home system.
4. In Shakespeare, hypocrisy is linked inseparably with that rapacious egoism that is willing to destroy all in order to advance itself.
5. They haven't done anything about the rapacious exploitation of the poor in the ghetto.sentence dictionary
6. He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup.
7. A decade of rapacious consolidation has made JPMorgan Chase the world's largest bank outside China.
8. Hawks and other rapacious birds prey on variety of small animals.
9. But Mr Stone is more interested in skewering rapacious financiers than rash homeowners.
10. Those were not the consideration that drove this rapacious beast from his den into the open!
11. He looked somehow rapacious.
12. Hawks and other rapacious birds may be killed at any time.
13. In the 1980s, the CEO was a rapacious plunderer, vilified for laying off honest folk just to acquire a more lavish jet.
14. Gregory regarded these claims as being marks of particular wickedness, and he saw the Merovingians as being, for the most part, rapacious.
15. These factors must bulk larger in the explanation of depopulation than the sixteenth-century writers' scapegoat, the rapacious landlords.
16. No nation omits to record the actions of their ancestors, however bloody, savage and rapacious.
17. Mr Brown said there was also a global perspective to America's rapacious model of consumption.
18. For many Chinese, daily life remains a grim struggle and their government rapacious, arbitrary and corrupt.
19. I have a recollection of large , unbending women with great noses and rapacious eyes.
More similar words: capacious, vivacious, sagacious, salacious, fallacious, audacious, voracious, mendacious, pugnacious, loquacious, voraciously, perspicacious, capacity, incapacitation, precious, officious, specious, pernicious, atrocious, conscious, judicious, malicious, ferocious, capricious, suspicious, precocious, consciously, unconscious, subconscious, avariciously.