rapacity
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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
"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
Many modern apologists for British colonial rule in India no longer contest the basic facts of imperial exploitation and plunder, rapacity and loot, which are too deeply documented to be challengeable.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2017
With Great-Bridge fallen, nothing stood between their town and the rapacity of the enemy.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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