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  • 11Comencini, Luigi — (1916 2007)    Director and screenwriter. Although often characterized almost exclusively as one of the leading practitioners of the commedia all italiana, Comencini was an eclectic and versatile director whose production ranged widely from… …

    Guide to cinema

  • 12Comencini, Luigi — (1916 2007)    Director and screenwriter. Although often characterized almost exclusively as one of the leading practitioners of the commedia all italiana, Comencini was an eclectic and versatile director whose production ranged widely from… …

    Historical dictionary of Italian cinema

  • 13BELIAL — (Heb. בְּלִיַּעַל; lit. worthlessness ). In the Bible a common noun characterizing persons who behave in a dissolute manner, give false testimony, or hatch infamous plots. It is used in apposition to such words as son (Deut. 13:14; I Sam. 2:12),… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 14extortionate — Synonyms and related words: all devouring, all engulfing, arousing, bloodsucking, clamant, clamorous, crying, cutthroat, demanding, draining, educible, eductive, elicitory, eradicative, evocative, exacting, exactive, excessive, exigent,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 15grabby — Synonyms and related words: a hog for, acquiring, acquisitive, all devouring, all engulfing, avaricious, avid, bloodsucking, bottomless, coveting, covetous, desirous, devouring, esurient, extortionate, gluttonous, gobbling, grasping, greedy,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 16grasping — Synonyms and related words: a hog for, acquiring, acquisitive, acquisitiveness, all devouring, all engulfing, ambitious for self, autistic, avarice, avaricious, avariciousness, avid, avidity, avidness, bloodsucking, bottomless, careerist, clamant …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 17lupine — Synonyms and related words: all devouring, all engulfing, bloodsucking, canine, doggy, extortionate, foxlike, foxy, grabby, grasping, parasitic, predacious, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, sharkish, vulpine, vulturine,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 18parasitic — Synonyms and related words: abject, accompanying, accordant, agreeing, all devouring, all engulfing, associate, associated, at one with, backscratching, beggarly, bloodsucking, bone lazy, bootlicking, cadging, coacting, coactive, coadunate,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 19predacious — Synonyms and related words: all devouring, all engulfing, bloodsucking, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, dining, eating, extortionate, feeding, flesh eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, grabby, grain eating,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 20predatory — Synonyms and related words: all devouring, all engulfing, avaricious, bloodsucking, carnivorous, despoiling, extortionate, grabby, grasping, greedy, larcenous, looting, lupine, marauding, parasitic, pillaging, plundering, plunderous, predacious,… …

    Moby Thesaurus