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Significados de vulturous em inglês

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

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        1
        Let me ask your opinion, Father, about this epidemic of predatory priests.
        Boston noir
        2
        Accusations include predatory pricing, offering illegal taxi services and breaking competition rules.
        BBC
        3
        An even older rule, going back to the very earliest predatory animals.
        Grand junction
        4
        Lawmakers are also working to protect consumers from predatory mortgage lending practices.
        Reuters
        5
        These happen to be the policies which best suit predatory financial speculators.
        The Guardian
        1
        He'd simply become more rapacious as the time for the cleansing neared.
        Chaosbound
        2
        What money is made is retained by private academies and rapacious administrators.
        The Guardian
        3
        The contour of his hook-nosed face had something rapacious written on it.
        Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
        4
        He cannot be at once a rapacious creditor and a discharged bankrupt.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
        5
        His heart fell when he saw the rapacious gleam in their eyes.
        Bundori
        1
        She couldn't protect herself against our ravening dad with a mere cut-eye!
        Sister Mine
        2
        Because she had formed an image of me as a ravening monster?
        Dexter by Design
        3
        At one o'clock the four elder ones would be upon her, ravening.
        Mary Gray
        4
        The deep voice of the wind is that of a ravening beast.
        Reach for Infinity
        5
        And yet, why throw a rag like this to us ravening wolves?
        In Defence of Harriet Shelley
        1
        Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face.
        The Prince and Betty
        2
        Waterall turned to him, the vulturine cast of his face more noticeable than ever.
        The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories
        3
        The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor.
        Two Years Ago, Volume I
        4
        It was like the vulturine face of Castor, but... No, it could not be Castor.
        Dayworld
        5
        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
        1
        They even have raptorial claws for the purpose.
        BBC
        2
        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 vulturous em inglês
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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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        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.
        A Dreamer's Tales
        Vulturous ao longo do tempo