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harpiesnounpl. of harpy a bad-tempered scolding womanin fairy tales stepmothers are often portrayed as harpies who make the lives of their stepchildren miserable battle-axes, dragon ladies, furies, harridans, shrews, termagants, viragoes(or viragos), vixens fishwifes(or fishwives), gorgonscarpers, castigators, cavilers(or cavillers), censurers, critics, faultfinders, nitpickers, railers, scoldsbelittlers, deriders, detractorspettifoggers, quibblers a person who habitually preys upon othershaving just started to make it really big in the music business, he found himself surrounded by a flock of harpies greedy for a piece of the action bloodsuckers, buzzards, kites, predators, sharks, vampires, vultures, wolves exploiters, usersleeches, spongers, spongesdestroyers, devourers prey(also preys) |