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

Maybe greed, rapacity and ruthlessness constitute a "philosophy" for some people.

From New York Times • May 21, 2016

Not for the first time, I was dumbstruck at the brilliance and originality of this master craftsman of the mind, his transparent rapacity of thought, his insatiable intellectual curiosity.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2011

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