vulturous

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May God Almighty protect both Susan and Sarah from the vulturous, envious, hateful media and critics of the world. timj Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11: 20 AM EST

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  1. Like or characteristic of a vulture. Such gawks (Geeken) are they, and foolish peacocks, and yet with such a vulturous hunger for self-indulgence. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, ii. 4.

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  • Can you imagine coming out into the world for the first time in 24 years and, after just a few weeks, when you haven't even been able to freely explore your new environment because of the presence of a vulturous press, having to face a global media storm and buckle down to working on multiple lawsuits?! —  New Statesman
  • In earlier posts I commented on the vulturous press. —  New Statesman
  • May God Almighty protect both Susan and Sarah from the vulturous, envious, hateful media and critics of the world. timj Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11: 20 AM EST —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • If he is selfish, that is, if he interprets the self that is in him as vulturous, then the whole outer world and his fellow-men fall for him into the category of carrion, or not-carrion. —  Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
  • Ye shall cease wholly to be barbarous vulturous Chactaws, and become noble European —  Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
 

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