- a variation of rapacity.
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
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
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 rapaciousness alone is enough to give one pause: Seriously, don’t we pay former presidents enough?
From Washington Post ● May 8, 2015
Under the decent names of eulogies and benedictions, the courtiers of both sexes were bribed according to the measure of their power and rapaciousness.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Henry Hart Milman
