rapacity

Example Sentences

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Nor has there ever been a time when the link between our rapacity and our present misery has felt as clear.

From New York Times

But we had no illusion that Ricca, et al., would actually restrain their rapacity.

From Washington Times

In the first, we find capitalism unbound, in all its rapacity.

From Washington Post

In the speech, Barr described a political philosophy driven by the need to counter an “individual rapacity” in humans that quickly produces “licentiousness” and the destruction of “healthy community life” if not restrained.

From The Guardian

They also testify to a particular seam of human history, one of resource extraction, rapacity and systematic abuse.

From New York Times