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Definition of "rapaciously" [rapaciously]

  • In a rapacious manner, greedily, with great appetite (adverb)

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Use "rapaciously" in a sentence
  • "He could feel those fingers worming into his brain, chewing into his thoughts and rapaciously digesting what they found."
  • "Surely he would be astonished to see himself inflated into yet another biographical Gargantua, not to mention in a book that feeds rapaciously on his most unattractive if not repellent aspects: his obsessive, divided sexuality, his spectacular alcoholism, his failures as husband and father."
  • "Here the humanoid on display was a rapaciously acquisitive creature engaged in elaborate and expensive mating rituals."