vulturous

• “A few days after HRW released its report, a gathering of vulturous poverty pimps known as the Development Assistance Group (DAG) representing donor states issued a statement denying the undeniable.”

  The Huffington Post: Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Feed Them and Bleed Them

• “It does say a lot about the awarding committees that the unfeeling--vampirish and vulturous--narrator in Olds's poetry is taken as the paragon of womanhood these days.”

  The Huffington Post: Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship

• “The report, the product of a two-year investigation, paints the firm as Exhibit A of Wall Street's evolution from a place that raises and deploys capital to worthy businesses into a vulturous creature that preys on unwitting investors.”

  The Huffington Post: Goldman Sachs Ripped Off And Misled Clients, Senate Report Says

• “A few days after HRW released its report, a gathering of vulturous poverty pimps known as the Development Assistance Group DAG representing donor states issued a statement denying the undeniable.”

  The Huffington Post: Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Feed Them and Bleed Them

• “As for the musical's other antique qualities, we're not even going to get into the slightly creepy circumstances of Cable's liaison with gentle, younger-than-springtime Liat, arranged by her vulturous mother, the trinket peddler Bloody Mary.”

  The Washington Post: Smooth sailing

• “But to dismiss them as exceptions to the rule, rather than products of a systemic, vulturous culture that must be attacked, is to choose a perilous path.”

  David A. Love: Absolute Corruption Is the Rule in America

• “And likewise, Mr. Letterman was back in the Ed Sullivan Theater, defending his staff from the vulturous press.”

  Bizarre Late Night Love Triangle

• “Many of the aforementioned agencies do gift suites at award shows where your product is there for the taking (hoarding - it is a vulturous experience).”

  Karen Robinovitz: Stalkerazzi! How to Get Products in the Hands of Celebrities!

• “Every evening beginning about an hour before sundown, vultures by the dozens descend upon the pines of Wenonah in that inimitable vulturous way, soaring in with nary a wing flap, then suddenly alighting in a tree.”

  Archive 2009-01-01

• “If the people are this vulturous here I can only imagine the likes of Bombay and New Delhi!”

  indiankurtis Diary Entry

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