Sentence examples for vulturous from inspiring English sources
adjective
Having the features of a vulture; especially those of being rapacious, greedy, or scavenging.
- The attorney licked his lips with vulturous delight as he listened to the man's description of neck pain after the accident.
"George Mallory" has now been republished in paperback accompanied by a strident new foreword by Joe Simpson (the author of a climbing bestseller, "Touching the Void"), denouncing what the family regards as the media's vulturous behaviour last year.In this book, Mallory's own evocative letters are permitted to stand alone, linked simply and sensitively by Mr Robertson's understated text.
In fact, we barely spoke about religion at all except for joint expressions of frustration at the god botherers who made the rounds in the ICU and other units where dying people could be preyed upon by vulturous Christians.
Stasey's sexual candor occasionally feeds right into the vulturous appetites of the tabloids and their blogging brethren.
Petraeus now works for the vulturous private equity firm KKR, run by Henry Kravis, who does arguably Bilderberg's best impression of Gordon Gecko out of Wall Street.
It is easy to forget that the banking collapse and bailout of the most vulturous and inept "super managers" in the world provoked a crisis of legitimacy for free market conservatism.
