rapaciousness

Example Sentences

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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

“There is a rapaciousness in the air, bordering on the obscene, as the city contorts, bends, shucks and jives to become whatever version of itself will bring about the largest turn of profit,” she wrote.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 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

The new and unsettled province of Dacia was neither strong enough to resist, nor rich enough to satiate, the rapaciousness of the barbarians.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Milman, Henry Hart