rapacity
noun
the quality of being rapacious, or given to seizing things for plunder.
Example Sentences
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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
“There is a rapaciousness in the air, bordering on the obscene, as the city contorts, bends, shucks and jives to become whatever version of itself will bring about the largest turn of profit,” she wrote.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
Her essays reveal an astute and acerbic commentator on our world, whether writing about adopting a cat or the rapaciousness of capitalism.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
You say I keep no books; pardon me—I am ashamed of my own rapaciousness I have kept 'Macaulay's History,' and Wordsworth's 'Prelude', and Taylor's 'Philip Van Artevelde.'
From Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
