something unpleasant and dangerous, gradually causing harm
rapacious
excessively greedy or grasping
bereft
deprived of or lacking something
juggernaut
a huge, powerful, and overwhelming force
harpy
greek & roman mythology: a creature described as having a woman's head and body and a bird's wings and claws or depicted as a bird of prey with a woman's face. they punished wrongdoers.
a grasping, unpleasant woman
apocryphal
(of a story or statement) that is untrue but circulates as being the truth
