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Meanings of vulturous in inglés
Synonyms
Examples for "predatory"
Examples for "predatory"
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Let me ask your opinion, Father, about this epidemic of predatory priests.
2
Accusations include predatory pricing, offering illegal taxi services and breaking competition rules.
3
An even older rule, going back to the very earliest predatory animals.
4
Lawmakers are also working to protect consumers from predatory mortgage lending practices.
5
These happen to be the policies which best suit predatory financial speculators.
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He'd simply become more rapacious as the time for the cleansing neared.
2
What money is made is retained by private academies and rapacious administrators.
3
The contour of his hook-nosed face had something rapacious written on it.
4
He cannot be at once a rapacious creditor and a discharged bankrupt.
5
His heart fell when he saw the rapacious gleam in their eyes.
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She couldn't protect herself against our ravening dad with a mere cut-eye!
2
Because she had formed an image of me as a ravening monster?
3
At one o'clock the four elder ones would be upon her, ravening.
4
The deep voice of the wind is that of a ravening beast.
5
And yet, why throw a rag like this to us ravening wolves?
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Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face.
2
Waterall turned to him, the vulturine cast of his face more noticeable than ever.
3
The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor.
4
It was like the vulturine face of Castor, but... No, it could not be Castor.
5
The man on his right was young, clean-shaven, and of a somewhat vulturine cast of countenance.
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They even have raptorial claws for the purpose.
2
The tallest of the Praying-Mantis creatures waved a raptorial leg at Iris, its mandible clicking commands.
3
It had been posed as if in mid-strike, its raptorial arms outflung to shadow the paper landscape below.
4
As if playing along, the mantis did a sudden little dance, flexing her raptorial legs while that bright watchful face did everything but wink.
Usage of vulturous in inglés
1
Major Danby pressed forward avidly with a look of vulturous well-meaning.
2
Their vulturous appetites rendered them regardless of all else.
3
Ye shall cease wholly to be barbarous vulturous Chactaws, and become noble European nineteenth-century men.
4
This sordid, vulturous, diabolical old man reminded Nately of his father because the two were nothing at all alike.
5
I saw a hand which was a claw, a strong, shriveled thing with long, dirty nails and a vulturous suggestion.
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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.
Frequent collocations
Vulturous through the time