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
Zuckerberg’s motto, “Move fast and break things”, was generally treated as a sign of youthful insouciance, not of galling rapacity.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2020
"We knew about the man's hunger; his fervor; his appetite. There was nothing secret about this voracious rapacity; like a gluttonous ogre out of the Brothers Grimm."
From Time ● Oct. 17, 2017
For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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