rapacious

adjective3

1. •
   Voracious; avaricious.

   • To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. — 1787
2. •
   Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.

   • A Prince […] sooner becomes hated by being rapacious and by interfering with the property and with the women of his subjects, than in any other way. — 1910
3. •
   Subsisting off live prey.

   • Even the rapacious birds appeared to comprehend the nature of the ceremony, for […] they once more began to make their airy circuits above the place[…] — 1827