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Meanings of rapacity in English
Catalan
rapacitat Excessive desire for possessions and wealth.
Usage of rapacity in English
1
Nor did this satisfy the rapacity of Mohammed Ali and the English.
2
Romans never mutinied, save through the rapacity or incompetence of their general.
3
Their disinterestedness presented a striking contrast to the rapacity of the French.
4
His tall, gaunt, craggy figure had a suggestion of hunger and rapacity.
5
Now for some years the rapacity of maritime peoples has been checked.
6
The worst enemy of Pompey never charged him with corruption or rapacity.
7
On one was a satire on the hypocritical rapacity of perfidious Albion.
8
His folly is only equalled by his rapacity, and both are stupendous.
9
What then are the hopes and prospects of covetousness, ambition, and rapacity?
10
The fierce rapacity of the Navailles was equally feared and hated.
11
With the rapacity Kidd had the cruelty of his odious calling.
12
We are as the unhappy Indians to the rapacity of Europe.
13
But nothing would satisfy your rapacity; you had resolved to quarrel with us.
14
The financial shrewdness and rapacity of property is worthy of admiration.
15
The ferocious rapacity of his servant had set his pride upon its guard.
16
Their cruelty and rapacity knew no bounds, and filled Athens with universal dismay.
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