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

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

From Washington Times • Dec. 25, 2020

Despite her dark wardrobe and wolflike rapacity on stage, she has a softness in person.

From New York Times • May 6, 2016

A water wasting accident, not rapacity, said Andrew, but still he declined to supply his surname.

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2015

With Great-Bridge fallen, nothing stood between their town and the rapacity of the enemy.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson