- 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
This rapaciousness for data has certain benefits for consumers, but there is also something insidious about Amazon’s ability to continuously gobble up people’s information and turn it into profit.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2018
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
He half turned his body and looked back toward the shack where the Captain waited, and a tightening came in his throat to mingle with the rapaciousness there.
From I Conquered by Harold Titus
