- a variation of rapacity.
rapaciousness
Example Sentences
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Robbie Amell and Andy Allo star in this bright and cynical afterlife comedy, where the only thing more certain than the icy finger of death is the rapaciousness of capitalist greed.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
A Monty Python sketch skewers the rapaciousness of these salespeople as well as the public’s distrust of them.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2023
What better way to demonstrate the logical endpoint of mankind’s rapaciousness than to cast out little reminders of Ahab’s crew spearing and stripping scores of whales for profit and pleasure?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2020
Tabloids can be rude and invasive and even false; the British tabloids are particularly notorious for their rapaciousness.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2019
Once we lived in what we saw; now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us.
From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
