Both Uses
rapacious
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Gone with the Wind
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- She had forgotten the trinkets she had intended to hide and, with a sneer which she hoped was as eloquent as that pictured on Grandma Robillard's face, she flung the articles to the floor and almost enjoyed the rapacious scramble that ensued.†
Chpt 3.27 *
- They are a bit too rapacious these days, a bit too open.†
Chpt 5.58
Definitions:
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(1)
(rapacious as in: a rapacious cartel) excessively greedy -- often destructive
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In zoology, rapacious describes an animal as living by preying on other animals -- especially by catching living prey.