Difference between Predatory and Rapacious

PREDATORY vs RAPACIOUS: ADJECTIVE

Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Devouring or craving food in great quantities
Having or showing a strong or excessive desire to acquire money or possess things; greedy.
Living by killing prey, especially in large numbers.
Taking things by force; plundering.
Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence
Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious
Voracious; avaricious.
Given to taking by force or plundering.
Subsisting off live prey.
Excessively greedy and grasping

Plundering; pillaging; living by rapine or preying.
Characterized by rapine; spent in plundering; devoted to pillaging.
In zoology, habitually preying upon other animals; carnivorous or insectivorous, as a mammal; rapacious or raptorial, as a bird; adephagous, as an insect.
Hungry; ravenous.

Synonyms Rapacious, Ravenous, Voracious. Rapacious, literally disposed to seize, may note, as the others do not, a distinctive characteristic of certain classes of animals; the tiger is a rapacious animal, but often not ravenous or voracious. Ravenous implies hunger of an extreme sort, shown in eagerness to eat. Voracious means that one eats or is disposed to eat a great deal, without reference to the degree of hunger: a glutton is voracious. Samuel Johnson tended to be a voracious eater, because in his early life he had often gone hungry till be was ravenous.
Of a grasping nature or character; characterized by rapacity; immoderately exacting; extortionate: as, a rapacious disposition; rapacious demands.
Of a grasping habit or disposition; given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed, or obtaining wrongfully or by extortion; predatory; extortionate: as, a rapacious usurer; specifically, of animals, subsisting by capture of living prey; raptorial; predaceous: as, rapacious birds or fishes.

Reckless, Prey, Predator, Predaceous, Vulturine, Offensive, Vulturous, Raiding, Acquisitive, Raptorial, Ravening, Marauding, Aggressive, Predacious, Rapacious

Avaricious, Greedy, Vulturine, Esurient, Edacious, Aggressive, Acquisitive, Raptorial, Vulturous, Wolfish, Voracious, Gluttonous, Ravening, Ravenous, Predatory

Abusive, Reckless, Predator, Vulturine, Predaceous, Offensive, Vulturous, Raiding, Acquisitive, Raptorial, Ravening, Marauding, Aggressive, Predacious, Rapacious

Avaricious, Greedy, Vulturine, Esurient, Edacious, Aggressive, Acquisitive, Raptorial, Vulturous, Wolfish, Voracious, Gluttonous, Ravening, Ravenous, Predatory

Various consumer citizen protection laws have been enacted by many jurisdictions to protect the consumer for predatory towing or predatory towing charges.
FTC, there was evidence of pricing below FDC accompanied by predatory intent sufficient to sustain a finding of predatory pricing.
The Predatory Lending Clinic is offered as a clinical component of the Predatory Lending Law and Practice course.
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How fitting for a man that built a predatory company to be ousted by predatory executives.
Predatory Pricing One of the most common abusive practices by dominant undertakings is predatory pricing.
As long as there is legal predatory lending, everything will be predatory.
Lacewing larvae, predatory mites and predatory thrips all feed on nymphs and adults.

Well, I have a rapacious wishlist for Christmas but definitely a selfless one.
Otherwise, a benign state monopoly is simply replaced with a rapacious private one.
Government should make preparations for defending them in future from the incursions of their rapacious neighbours.
The chronicles of medieval England had always portrayed them as rapacious 'wolves among sheep'.
Wolf Face emoji, this one represents the two most known rapacious forest animals.
Hail Nosey who came forth from Hermopolis, I have not been rapacious.
Mr Venus not having been prepared for such a rapacious demand.
This is not a study of malevolent or rapacious executives.
He joins the Muscle in its rapacious picnicking.
Buffing the Rapacious One is a useful catalyst.

Why is the government allowing rapacious tourism to threaten tourist attractions?