0 in a way that has or shows a strong wish to take things for yourself, usually using unfair methods or force: --
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.
There must be stronger policies to defend the rain forests and to use them as a renewable, recyclable resource, rather than destroying them rapaciously.
She plays the rapaciously ambitious editor of a tabloid magazine.
He was rapaciously greedy in dealings with his publishers.
