rapacity

Example Sentences

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Perhaps my cynicism about Mr. Witkoff’s curious mix of ingenuousness and rapacity is unfair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

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

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023

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

From Washington Times • Dec. 25, 2020

"We knew about the man's hunger; his fervor; his appetite. There was nothing secret about this voracious rapacity; like a gluttonous ogre out of the Brothers Grimm."

From Time • Oct. 17, 2017

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas