GREEDYalways wanting more money, goods etc than you need or have a right to 贪婪的;贪心的;强取的SYN greedy
rapacious landlords
贪婪的房东
—rapaciouslyadverbadv
—rapacity /rəˈpæsəti/ noun [uncountableU]
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rapacious• Gregory regarded these claims as being marks of particular wickedness, and he saw the Merovingians as being, for the most part, rapacious.• Their officers, though more sophisticated, were equally rapacious.• The principle of rapaciousegoism, Shakespeare shows, does not let up once it has achieved its first-formulated goal.• In Shakespeare, hypocrisy is linked inseparably with that rapacious egoism that is willing to destroy all in order to advance itself.• They haven't done anything about the rapaciousexploitation of the poor in the ghetto.• These factors must bulk larger in the explanation of depopulation than the sixteenth-century writers' scapegoat, the rapaciouslandlords.• rapacious real estatedevelopers• It was a horrendous, rapaciousstrategy that they had used to gain control of their own home system.