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In natural English speech, "rapacious" appears in contexts such as: "on guard fully armed. He again declines to obey. He does not refuse to go and stand near the haystacks where they place him, but refuses to take his arms, rapacious people in the world are extinct. And since this will either". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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on guard fully armed. He again declines to obey. He does not refuse to go and stand near the haystacks where they place him, but refuses to take his arms,

rapacious people in the world are extinct. And since this will either

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adjective

Voracious; avaricious.

“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.”

Synonyms:acquisitive avaricious cormorant covetous

adjective

Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.

“A Prince […] sooner becomes hated by being rapacious and by interfering with the property and with the women of his subjects, than in any other way.”

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