rapacious

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The lovers attract the attentions of a rapacious gang, who descend on them, searching for non-existent booty.
这对爱人引起了贪婪的刚的注意，为了寻找并不存在的宝藏他袭击了他们。
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.
一个放松管制的产业非常有用：大臣能充分享用低价的好处，同时把对涨价的指责推给贪婪的电力巨头。
Maybe not surprisingly, the language of anti- elitism has often been a useful tool of the most rapacious and merciless among the elite.
也有可能不会让人感到惊讶，反精英的语言经常是对付那些精英中非常贪婪无情的人们的有力工具。

He's tyrannical, he's rapacious, he's undisciplined, he's over-sexed.
残暴，贪婪，毫无修养，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.
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Their brazen ways risk riling antitrust regulators, still giddy from smacking around that rapacious monopolist, Microsoft.
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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.