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Значения термина rapacious на английском
Devouring or craving food in great quantities.
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Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey.
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Examples for "predatory"
Examples for "predatory"
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Let me ask your opinion, Father, about this epidemic of predatory priests.
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Accusations include predatory pricing, offering illegal taxi services and breaking competition rules.
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An even older rule, going back to the very earliest predatory animals.
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Lawmakers are also working to protect consumers from predatory mortgage lending practices.
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These happen to be the policies which best suit predatory financial speculators.
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Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face.
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Waterall turned to him, the vulturine cast of his face more noticeable than ever.
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The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor.
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It was like the vulturine face of Castor, but... No, it could not be Castor.
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The man on his right was young, clean-shaven, and of a somewhat vulturine cast of countenance.
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Major Danby pressed forward avidly with a look of vulturous well-meaning.
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Their vulturous appetites rendered them regardless of all else.
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Ye shall cease wholly to be barbarous vulturous Chactaws, and become noble European nineteenth-century men.
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This sordid, vulturous, diabolical old man reminded Nately of his father because the two were nothing at all alike.
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I saw a hand which was a claw, a strong, shriveled thing with long, dirty nails and a vulturous suggestion.
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They even have raptorial claws for the purpose.
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The tallest of the Praying-Mantis creatures waved a raptorial leg at Iris, its mandible clicking commands.
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It had been posed as if in mid-strike, its raptorial arms outflung to shadow the paper landscape below.
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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.
Использование термина rapacious на английском
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He'd simply become more rapacious as the time for the cleansing neared.
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What money is made is retained by private academies and rapacious administrators.
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The contour of his hook-nosed face had something rapacious written on it.
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He cannot be at once a rapacious creditor and a discharged bankrupt.
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His heart fell when he saw the rapacious gleam in their eyes.
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As ambitious, rapacious, eager for nothing but military glory and territorial aggrandisement.
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They say that a pure bloodline frustrates the ambitions of rapacious men.
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The man with the rapacious desire for annihilating success in his eyes.
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Pirates, rapacious politicians, religious matters, or witchcraft were sometimes sources of disturbance.
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Behind his glasses, his eyes had the rapacious look of a wolf.
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There was about them something rapacious and condescending... something which inspired dread.
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The skuas are bare-faced robbers and most rapacious, harassing the penguins in particular.
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Of course, it is not just rapacious foreigners doing the fishing in Kiribati.
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The ideological choice is not between unbridled capitalism or an overbearing, rapacious state.
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This most rapacious miscreant would hold his favor with the king.
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The rapacious axe had not spared one of the leafy tribe.
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