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UK
/ɹæpˈæsɪti/
]
NOUN
- reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- extreme gluttony
How To Use rapacity In A Sentence
- But don't think for a second that the Fed has some kind of monopoly on a situation where rapacity pervades honest reason.
- While some have embraced democratic principles, others continue to rule through rapacity, despotism, and corruption.
- Some would argue we had no choice considering the rapacity and oppressiveness of our foe. How the End Begins
- State, will strive to keep the Indians as far as possible from its own borders; while powerful combinations of speculators will make their fight for the last acre of Indian lands with just as much rapacity as if they had not already, in Western phrase, "gobbled" a hundred thousand square miles of it. The Indian Question (1874)
- Maxwell land grant case, which he characterizes as a wanton and shameful surrender to the rapacity of monopolists of 1,662,764 acres of the public domain, on which hundreds of poor men had settled in good faith and made valuable improvements. Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9
- It is not an effective instrument for protecting our people from the greed and rapacity of outsiders.
- Critics who decry regulatory costs are dismissed as deluded apologists for corporate rapacity.
- The reputation of private equity and hedge fund groups for short-termism and rapacity can make it difficult for stakeholders to swallow the idea of their taking larger positions in US energy infrastructure ownership. Peter Gardett: Shadow Banks Go Long Energy Projects
- It shows a society that, white or red, encourages rapacity, self-deception and slavish respect for authority.
- It's been brewing for more than a year, this public resentment of the rapacity of police ticketing for traffic offences.