rapacious

About 0.42 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Voracious; avaricious.
2. adjective Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.

   The natives were driven out by rapacious colonists.

3. adjective Subsisting off live prey.

Similar words

ravening edacious ravenous voracious gluttonous esurient predatory aggressive wolfish acquisitive

Often followed by

and birds as than in of hands landlords spirit

Word family

rapaciously rapaciousness rapaciousnesses