Translation for '
rapacious' from English to Slovak
ADJ | rapacious | more rapacious | most rapacious | |
SYNO | edacious | esurient | predatory | ... |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
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- His sexual appetite was rapacious, and he preferred mulatta women with full bodies.
- In 2013 Land played a "leanly rapacious capitalist" in Jerry Herman's "Dear World" in the West End at the Charing Cross Theatre.
- "Pachycondyla harpax", the rapacious panther ant, is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.
- This hydronym refers to a large diurnal rapacious bird with hooked bill and powerful greenhouses.
- By the twenty-second century it has become a colony of the younger civilization of Earth, its natives oppressed by the rapacious Colonial Authority.
- By the twenty-second century it had become a colony of the younger civilization of Earth, its natives oppressed by the rapacious Colonial Authority.
- from the alliance/ Of the rapacious vulture and greedy wolf.
- Hopkins was a London merchant who was reputedly miserly and given to rapacious business practices.
- Ferhat was executed on the grounds of rapacious and ruthless conduct in the provinces which he was assigned.
- A rapacious predator, described by one writer as "surely the king of beasts of the Protozoa," it feeds exclusively on other microscopic organisms.
- It has been suggested that a VBM will grind at 20 to 30 times the rate of a rotary ball mill, reflecting that a VBM's mechanism is especially rapacious.
- She was seen as greedy and rapacious by her contemporaries.
- The fauna was very varied in prehispanic times, but most of the species have become extinct. The mountain fauna was particularly rich in precious and rapacious birds.
- A rapacious female werewolf who appears in the guise of a seductive femme fatale before transforming into lupine form to devour her hapless male victims is the protagonist of Clemence Housman's acclaimed "The Were-wolf" published in 1896.
- Social segregation, from housing to laws against interracial chess games, was justified as a way to prevent black men from having sex with white women and in particular the rapacious Black Buck stereotype.
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