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

We are shocked at their injustice, cruelty, and rapaciousness; but they are often used by Providence to raise nations to preeminence, when their ascendency is, on the whole, a benefit to the world.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John