Vocabulary
Rapacious
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
aggressively greedy or grasping.
Urdu meaning
شکاری، شکار کھیلنا، عصمت دری
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Thus, it is clear that the emerging politico-legal order is going to make the rapacious elites all the more extractive and repressive, and yet, immune to accountability, with the hapless people being the easy prey.
- Thus, while the ICJ deliberates placing responsibility on historical emitters, will it indict an economic mode of production built on rapacious greed and the exploitation of labour and nature?
- The neocons, according to the analysts, had shaped the Biden administration`s rapacious support for the massacres in Ukraine and the Middle East.
- But many amongst them use that understanding to satisfy their rapacious monetary appetites.
Synonyms
grasping, greedy, avaricious, acquisitive, covetous, mercenary, materialistic, insatiable
Curator example
“rapacious landlords”
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