- a variation of rapacity.
rapaciousness
Example Sentences
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A Monty Python sketch skewers the rapaciousness of these salespeople as well as the public’s distrust of them.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2023
What better way to demonstrate the logical endpoint of mankind’s rapaciousness than to cast out little reminders of Ahab’s crew spearing and stripping scores of whales for profit and pleasure?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2020
Tabloids can be rude and invasive and even false; the British tabloids are particularly notorious for their rapaciousness.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2019
In the highlands, Holger Vera, the farmer, stands amid a grove of orange trees, pineapple plants and other crops, lamenting the rapaciousness of the local rodents.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 2017
Malta is one of the remarkable instances in which we may trace a kind of penalty on the rapaciousness of the Republic.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various
