rapaciousness

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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

Her essays reveal an astute and acerbic commentator on our world, whether writing about adopting a cat or the rapaciousness of capitalism.

From Slate • Jan. 24, 2018

In the highlands, Holger Vera, the farmer, stands amid a grove of orange trees, pineapple plants and other crops, lamenting the rapaciousness of the local rodents.

From Scientific American • Nov. 1, 2017

The provinces groaned at once under all the severity of public imposition and the rapaciousness of private usury.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund