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

In one early and unsuccessful debate in 1753, the MP for York asserted that a census would "impair the liberty of the individual", describing it as a "most effectual engine of rapacity and repression".

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2011

Their rapacity for mastery had been so great that all were brought to destruction equally.

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