Vulture

Definitions

1. Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
2. A person who profits from the suffering of others.
   colloquial, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“The outer third of the wing of a vulture consists of the wing tips. The inner two-thirds of the wing are cambered (when the wing is extended), and are concerned with lifting effort in unsoarable air and with lifting and tractive effort in soarable air.”

“In clusters on the plain, like⟳ cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]”

“Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.”

CEFR level