adjective
- resembling or characteristic of a harpy; predatory, grasping, or shrewish in manner
Usage: literary or formal; often used to describe a woman perceived as cruel, greedy, or vicious
Examples
- The harpylike woman clawed at every opportunity to increase her wealth.
- Her harpylike behavior made her feared throughout the office.
- He described his ex-wife in harpylike terms during the bitter divorce proceedings.
- The villain's harpylike servants terrorized the village.
- With harpylike intensity, she pursued her rivals without mercy.