- 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
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
Her essays reveal an astute and acerbic commentator on our world, whether writing about adopting a cat or the rapaciousness of capitalism.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
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
