Meanings of most rapacious in English

The skuas are bare-faced robbers and most rapacious, harassing the penguins in particular.

This most rapacious miscreant would hold his favor with the king.

Pound for pound, a velociraptor was the most rapacious dinosaur that ever lived.

Methodically it went round the circle of shops, the most rapacious customer the town had ever seen.

Here had flocked the most rapacious of gamblers, the most beautiful and unscrupulous women on the Pacific slope.

In his appetite for power, is not the Austrian the most rapacious of all the princes of the earth?

My behaviour has been more barbarous to you, my own sister, than the most rapacious of pirates-worsethan Dreadbeard himself!

A fond mother, in pursuit of praise for her children, is the most rapacious of human beings and likewise the most credulous.

Martin's couple of lances had expanded into a corps of free companions, the most truculent, the most obedient, the most rapacious in Christendom.

Yes, to have taken gold, gold to an amount which Clive in his most rapacious moments never dreamt of, for his countrymen's blood.

The actual consequence of "soft-touch" regulation was to license the most rapacious misconduct with disastrous consequences for the City's reputation and the broader economy.

"The most rapacious thief I ever met!" exclaimed the traveller, thickly.

"O, they are the most rapacious set of villains," Jackson continued, "that ever lived.