Crossword-Solution: RAPACIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rapacious | a. | Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. |
| Rapacious | a. | Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird. |
| Rapacious | a. | Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “RAPACIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| More than greedy | 1 answer |
| Aggressively greedy | 1 answer |
| INORDINATELY greedy | 2 answers |
| Hungry to an extreme degree | 4 answers |
| zoophagous | 9 answers |
| carnivorous | 9 answers |
| Omnivorous | 10 answers |
| Ravenous | 14 answers |
| Plundering. | 27 answers |
| raptorial | 27 answers |
| ravening | 28 answers |
| hawklike | 28 answers |
| predacious | 29 answers |
| ravaging | 29 answers |
| grabbing | 29 answers |
| thieving | 30 answers |
| pillaging | 31 answers |
| extortionate | 32 answers |
| Itching | 34 answers |
| Taking | 34 answers |
| predatory | 35 answers |
| Voracious | 40 answers |
| penurious | 42 answers |
| Parsimonious | 42 answers |
| avaricious | 44 answers |
| Gluttonous | 44 answers |
| greedy | 45 answers |
| Covetous | 47 answers |
| grasping | 48 answers |
| Famished | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with RAPACIOUS (5)
How long she hung there she never knew, but finally a little strength returned to her, and presently she realized that it was a pendant creeper hanging low from a jungle tree upon the bank that had saved her from the river’s rapacious maw.
Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.
Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing; and the excessive affection and endurance of the Miss Steeles towards her offspring were viewed therefore by Lady Middleton without the smallest surprise or distrust.
Yes, he would be kind—Lily, from the threshold, had time to feel—kind in his gross, unscrupulous, rapacious way, the way of the predatory creature with his mate.
Vain and rapacious in disposition, he consoled himself by refusing to obey any one save his employer, by envying him with his whole heart, and by cursing fate for not having made him the Count de Chalusse instead of the Count de Chalusse’s servant.
Quotes with RAPACIOUS (3)
He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with blackened eyebrows, leaned over him as he sprawled there.“‘How about my present?’ she demanded, half wheedling, half menacing.“Never mind that now. To work! Come here. Not a bad mouth. Come here. Come closer. Ah!“No. No use. Impossible. The will but not the way. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Try again. No. The booze, it must be. See Macbeth. One last try. No, no use…
Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full.
They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.