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

Nor has there ever been a time when the link between our rapacity and our present misery has felt as clear.

From New York Times

But we had no illusion that Ricca, et al., would actually restrain their rapacity.

From Washington Times

In the speech, Barr described a political philosophy driven by the need to counter an “individual rapacity” in humans that quickly produces “licentiousness” and the destruction of “healthy community life” if not restrained.

From The Guardian

Zuckerberg’s motto, “Move fast and break things”, was generally treated as a sign of youthful insouciance, not of galling rapacity.

From The Guardian