vulture
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8.0
- noun
- /ˈvʌltʃər/
- Offensive
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buitre
- If that makes me a vulture, then I'm a vulture.
Well, I I used to call him the Vulture of BlackRock.
- Well, I I used to call him the Vulture of BlackRock.
- But this, this album process is for the fucking vultures.
- They have put these tentacles of of unfettered vulture capitalism into every corner of our world.
- Dude straight up just straight up a straight up real, just human vulture, man.
- But along that path, you know, there's vultures, there's people who try to hurt you, and you have to grow from that.
- I don't care if it's, you know, one of those, one of those forces or I don't care if it's a damn vulture.
- As all the vultures of regulators are coming in, coming in and circling around the rat that is CZ, all of a sudden CZ wants to get out.
- It's for them to continue the nonsense that they doing to make money or also to attempt to exploit our talents and be culture vultures.
Examples
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We were able to portray him as a capitalist vulture, which is what he is.
Blog text (8) -
After the disaster, the vultures emerged, ready to take advantage of the victims' misfortunes.
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Was your father by any chance a vulture?
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"You must think I'm some kind of vulture, asking this.
Fiction book (2002) -
Those vultures will take everything we have.
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Are you just going to leave him for the vultures?
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Last week, I went to an estate sale where I saw people gathered like vultures.
Fiction book (1994) -
See what you've been doing to me all along?" He leaned forward like a vulture.
Fiction book (2000) -
Those people are vultures.
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You're a vulture, Corso.
Synonyms
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8.5
A person who uses others to get money or power
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4.6
A person who attacks or tricks others to get something from them
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5.9
A person who lives off others and gives nothing in return
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8.4
A person who takes advantage of others for their own benefit
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8.1
A person who takes advantage of others and gives nothing in return
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6.0
A person who unfairly uses others to get money
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7.7
A person who gains from other people's problems by taking advantage of them
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7.1
A person who uses others selfishly to get money or power
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7.6
A person who gets food or money from others without paying
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9.9
A person who often asks others for money or food without giving anything back
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9.9
A person called greedy for taking advantage of others for profit
A person who profits from other people's misfortune
A person who uses charm to take advantage of others for money
A person who always asks for free things and never gives anything back
A person who works for whoever pays most and cares only about money
Antonyms
Compounds
- Informal
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6.5
A person who loves visiting museums, galleries and theatres to see art
A small white vulture with a yellow face and thin bill that lives in Africa and southern Asia
- US
A large black-and-white bird with a colorful bare head that eats dead animals in Central and South America
A large bird in the Americas that eats dead animals and often has a bare head
A large bird that eats dead animals and lives in Africa, Europe, or Asia, not in the Americas
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Vulture is also used for a person who takes advantage of others and comes from the same Latin vultur, because, like the bird that waits to 'tear' a carcass, a human vulture 'swoops in' to take advantage of someone's misfortune.