rapacity

Nor has there ever been a time when the link between our rapacity and our present misery has felt as clear.

But we had no illusion that Ricca, et al., would actually restrain their rapacity.

In the first, we find capitalism unbound, in all its rapacity.

In the speech, Barr described a political philosophy driven by the need to counter an “individual rapacity” in humans that quickly produces “licentiousness” and the destruction of “healthy community life” if not restrained.

They also testify to a particular seam of human history, one of resource extraction, rapacity and systematic abuse.