Meanings of rapaciousness in English

Her rapaciousness engaged her to give endless disturbance and interruption to commerce.

Even more so than in Bridesmaids, McCarthy plays sexual rapaciousness dead straight.

And free love delivers the weak up to the rapaciousness of the strong.

His kind of rapaciousness, it doesn't end.

The provinces groaned at once under all the severity of public imposition and the rapaciousness of private usury.

The Wolf Lord's rapaciousness repulsed him.

What we do know is that there is no limit to the rapaciousness of the modern "content provider".

Once we lived in what we saw; now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us.

Sive's story has to be enacted in a setting that explicitly signals the rapaciousness of peasants clawing up a spindly economic ladder.

The new and unsettled province of Dacia was neither strong enough to resist, nor rich enough to satiate, the rapaciousness of the barbarians.

Too often it inspires greed and rapaciousness-especiallywhen those obscure elements find use in commerce, war, or, worst of all, both at once.

All the people are drunk with the wine of heedlessness; and blood-thirstiness and rapaciousness are considered the noblest excellencies of the world of men.

I will not say all I might of this young man's extraordinary rapaciousness:-butone would think, that these grasping men expect to live for ever!

(80) I pity you, dear Sir, and feel for your awkwardness, that was struck dumb at his rapaciousness.

Her rapaciousness engaged her to give endless disturbance and interruption to commerce.

Even more so than in Bridesmaids, McCarthy plays sexual rapaciousness dead straight.