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词汇 rapaciously
释义 rapaciously
adverb
 formaluk /rəˈpeɪ.ʃəs.li/ us /rəˈpeɪ.ʃəs.li/
in a way that has or shows a strong wish to take things for yourself, usually using unfair methods or force: 巧取豪夺地,贪婪地,掠夺地
The company has rapaciously increased its high charges.该公司贪婪地提高了本已高昂的收费。
Their economy has been growing rapaciously.他们的经济一直在迅猛增长。
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rapacious
He was rapaciously greedy in dealings with his publishers.
These energy companies acted so rapaciously.
She plays the rapaciously ambitious editor of a tabloid magazine.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Greedy
avarice
avaricious
avariciously
consumerism
grabby
grasping
greed
greedily
greediness
hoggishly
Mammon
materialism
materialist
materialistic
piggy
rapacious
rapaciousness
rapacity
ravenous
someone's eyes are bigger than their belly/stomachidiom

Examples of rapaciously


rapaciously
There must be stronger policies to defend the rain forests and to use them as a renewable, recyclable resource, rather than destroying them rapaciously.
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Hansard archive

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After a series of strange skeletons wash ashore (human, then fish) it turns out the water has become inhabited by some sort of glowing microbe which apparently devours flesh rapaciously.
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Wikipedia

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