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

Tabloids can be rude and invasive and even false; the British tabloids are particularly notorious for their rapaciousness.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2019

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

I pity you, dear Sir, and feel for your awkwardness, that was struck dumb at his rapaciousness.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace