rapaciousness

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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

Fritsch weathered the art world’s rapaciousness in the 1980s, refusing to churn out work too fast or under pressure: As such, she never turned cynical.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 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

Thus this miserable country was torn to pieces by the horrible rapaciousness of a double tyranny.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund