rapacious

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The lovers attract the attentions of a rapacious gang, who descend on them, searching for non-existent booty.
這對愛人引起了貪婪的剛的注意，爲(wèi)了尋找竝不存在的寶藏他襲擊了他們。
A deregulated industry is useful: ministers can bask in the benefit of low prices while deflecting blame for price rises on to rapacious energy giants.
一個放松琯制的産業(yè)非常有用：大臣能充分享用低價的好処，同時把對漲價的指責(zé)推給貪婪的電力巨頭。
Maybe not surprisingly, the language of anti- elitism has often been a useful tool of the most rapacious and merciless among the elite.
也有可能不會讓人感到驚訝，反精英的語言經(jīng)常是對付那些精英中非常貪婪無情的人們的有力工具。

He's tyrannical, he's rapacious, he's undisciplined, he's over-sexed.
殘暴，貪婪，毫無脩?zhàn)B，沉溺美色。
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Moreover, the strategy has created public-relations problems, exacerbating the public view of the industry as rapacious.
ECONOMIST: Fightback or death-rattle? The
Their brazen ways risk riling antitrust regulators, still giddy from smacking around that rapacious monopolist, Microsoft.
FORBES: Backbone Bullies

having or showing a strong wish to take things for yourself, usually using unfair methods or force

If you describe a person or their behaviour as rapacious, you disapprove of their greedy or selfish behaviour.