0 in a way that has or shows a strong wish to take things for yourself, usually using unfair methods or force:
He was rapaciously greedy in dealings with his publishers.
She plays the rapaciously ambitious editor of a tabloid magazine.
There must be stronger policies to defend the rain forests and to use them as a renewable, recyclable resource, rather than destroying them rapaciously.
After a series of strange skeletons wash ashore (human, then fish) it turns out the water has become inhabited by some sort of glowing microbe which apparently devours flesh rapaciously.
