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rapacity
[ ruh-pas-i-tee ]
noun
- the quality of being rapacious, or given to seizing things for plunder:
That the monastery was raided six times, and burned 26 times in between, shows the rapacity of the Vikings.
- extreme greediness; predatory quality or character:
People blamed the higher prices on the rapacity of businesses.
- (of animals) the fact or characteristic of subsisting by the capture of living prey:
The early settlers of America suffered from the severity of the climate and the rapacity of wolves.
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 耻苍路谤补路辫补路肠颈辞耻蝉路苍别蝉蝉 noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of rapacity1
Example Sentences
Nor has there ever been a time when the link between our rapacity and our present misery has felt as clear.
But we had no illusion that Ricca, et al., would actually restrain their rapacity.
In the first, we find capitalism unbound, in all its rapacity.
In the speech, Barr described a political philosophy driven by the need to counter an 鈥渋ndividual rapacity鈥 in humans that quickly produces 鈥渓icentiousness鈥 and the destruction of 鈥渉ealthy community life鈥 if not restrained.
They also testify to a particular seam of human history, one of resource extraction, rapacity and systematic abuse.
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