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Перевод: rapacious

[прилагательное]
жадный; ненасытный; прожорливый; захватнический; грабительский; хищный

Тезаурус:

1. The questions that Barley poses so obliquely, so engagingly, will increasingly be asked by those on the left who are appalled at third world regimes of exploitation and corruption, abetted by rapacious patron-states in the rich first world.
2. From boyhood Roberts displayed a brilliant and self-tutored mathematical brain and a rapacious appetite for radio knowledge, much of which he absorbed from the journal Wireless World and in public libraries.
3. A base rate of 15 per cent is perilously close to monetary overkill, let alone the still higher rates which might be needed to appease the rapacious gods of the foreign exchange markets.
4. Call Me Old Fashioned , I thought was a good title, and A Licence to Print Money would have been another good title for a bestseller, but it had rather a rapacious sound don't you think?
5. Their rapacious habits have been the subject of bloody hyperbole in films and bestsellers, so everybody knows that the shark has ranks of fearsome, pointed teeth, an elegant, incessant swishing swimming motion, a tail with a long "point" uppermost, and a big appetite.
6. It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries' companies were being taken over by the people themselves.
7. And, once again, his stage swarms with a gruesome crew of rapacious monsters, portrayed with that lurid neo-Jacobean ferocity so many present- day playwrights employ when putting Thatcherism under the arc-lights.
8. Mr Premium, thought Sir Peter, would abuse the public for allowing merit to an Act whose object was to snatch misfortune and prudence from the rapacious gripe of usury, and give the minor a chance of inheriting his estate without being undone by coming into possession.
9. By that I mean those of us who don't fit in to the stereotypes created by our culture, and refuse to be; for example, such like myself who aren't rapacious materialists, fashion victims, empty-headed bimbos, domineering matriarchs who perpetually have a pan of chicken soup on the hob and a home-made cake ready for everloving family to devour.
10. Some British firms doing business there are thinking of buying a car to transport staff from Tunisia or Egypt to Libya to save paying rapacious taxi drivers.
11. Sadly, these days are gone, and, it seems, Man's rapacious rape of the sea is now performing the same disservice to other species of white fish.
12. He will pursue like a panther and be coy prey, present himself as rapacious subject of desire and fey object of bliss ("Anna Stesia" pleads "praise me, ravish me").
13. Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself, it looks at an era - 1964 to 1979 - during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged.