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rapacious🔊

(also figurative) Voracious; avaricious.

💬 Quotations
To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.

(of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.