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rapacity::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | avarice, avaritia, covetousness, greed |
| Type of | deadly sin, mortal sin |
| Derivation | rapacious |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, voraciousness, voracity |
| Type of | gluttony |
| Derivation | rapacious |
Examples of rapacity
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Given the number and rapacity of the oystermen, the harvest eventually plummeted.
From the washingtonpost.com
Too often, it was licensed rapacity, and there are more victims yet to come.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
If Kennedy's duplicity was not limited to finance, neither was his rapacity.
From the guardian.co.uk
Instead, the pollution and helter-skelter architecture attest to neglect and rapacity.
From the latimes.com
Cheaply built, it is vulnerable to the country's climate and the rapacity of developers.
From the guardian.co.uk
In the Jet Age, by contrast, many airports are monuments of muddle, rapacity and discomfort.
From the time.com
Human's crave for money knows no boundary, propelled by insatiable greed and unrelenting rapacity.
From the economist.com
Charity and rapacity sit surprisingly comfortably together, both in Mr Hohn's person and in his business.
From the economist.com
Every proxy season brings new evidence of amazing rapacity.
From the theatlantic.com
- Edacity: extreme gluttony
- Avarice: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- (rapacious) predatory: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
- (rapacious) excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"
- (rapacious) edacious: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
- The quality of being rapacious; voracity
- (Rapacious) subsisting by the capture of living prey
