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Significados de vulturine em inglês

Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey.

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Examples for "predatory"
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Let me ask your opinion, Father, about this epidemic of predatory priests.
Boston noir
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Accusations include predatory pricing, offering illegal taxi services and breaking competition rules.
BBC
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An even older rule, going back to the very earliest predatory animals.
Grand junction
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Lawmakers are also working to protect consumers from predatory mortgage lending practices.
Reuters
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These happen to be the policies which best suit predatory financial speculators.
The Guardian
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He'd simply become more rapacious as the time for the cleansing neared.
Chaosbound
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What money is made is retained by private academies and rapacious administrators.
The Guardian
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The contour of his hook-nosed face had something rapacious written on it.
Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
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He cannot be at once a rapacious creditor and a discharged bankrupt.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
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His heart fell when he saw the rapacious gleam in their eyes.
Bundori
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She couldn't protect herself against our ravening dad with a mere cut-eye!
Sister Mine
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Because she had formed an image of me as a ravening monster?
Dexter by Design
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At one o'clock the four elder ones would be upon her, ravening.
Mary Gray
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The deep voice of the wind is that of a ravening beast.
Reach for Infinity
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And yet, why throw a rag like this to us ravening wolves?
In Defence of Harriet Shelley
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Major Danby pressed forward avidly with a look of vulturous well-meaning.
Catch-22
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Their vulturous appetites rendered them regardless of all else.
The Boy Hunters
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Ye shall cease wholly to be barbarous vulturous Chactaws, and become noble European nineteenth-century men.
In Darkest England, and the Way Out
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This sordid, vulturous, diabolical old man reminded Nately of his father because the two were nothing at all alike.
Catch-22
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I saw a hand which was a claw, a strong, shriveled thing with long, dirty nails and a vulturous suggestion.
A Man and a Woman
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They even have raptorial claws for the purpose.
BBC
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The tallest of the Praying-Mantis creatures waved a raptorial leg at Iris, its mandible clicking commands.
Future Lovecraft
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It had been posed as if in mid-strike, its raptorial arms outflung to shadow the paper landscape below.
Empire in black and gold
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As if playing along, the mantis did a sudden little dance, flexing her raptorial legs while that bright watchful face did everything but wink.
Engineering Infinity
Uso de vulturine em inglês
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Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face.
The Prince and Betty
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Waterall turned to him, the vulturine cast of his face more noticeable than ever.
The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories
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The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor.
Two Years Ago, Volume I
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It was like the vulturine face of Castor, but... No, it could not be Castor.
Dayworld
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The man on his right was young, clean-shaven, and of a somewhat vulturine cast of countenance.
The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories
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His dark face had a peculiarly vulturine look.
The Godfather
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Usually it keeps to rocky hills and mountains, over which it beats with a steady, sailing, vulturine flight.
Birds of the Indian Hills
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At this, thy son Srutarvan, excited with rage, pierced Bhima with a hundred straight arrows winged with vulturine feathers.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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And what of another, hitherto unnoticed, whose nose is of the hooked vulturine, whose name transpires as Pisistratus Mytharete?
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 3
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There is no more to be discovered in the matter, save by the vulturine nose which smells carrion in every rose-bed.
Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time
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Ruthven stood forward from the group, his reeking poniard clutched in his right hand, a grin distorting his ghastly, vulturine face.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series
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But he was more interested in her husband, a dark dry man, with big eyes, sallow complexion, prominent chin, and vulturine nose.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 4
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Then Yudhishthira also, filled with wrath, and the two sons of Madri, began to slay those elephant-warriors with arrows equipped with vulturine wings.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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"Blaspheme not," he croaked, and his tall form quivered with rage, his sallow old face grew vulturine.
The Sea-Hawk
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