Catalan
rapacitat Excessive desire for possessions and wealth.
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They were listening with gloomy voracity to the instruction of a third.
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The corpse was left, entirely naked, to the voracity of wild beasts.
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A candle of yellow wax illuminated this scene of voracity and revery.
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This meal was devoured by my worthy relative with avidity and voracity.
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They were remarkable not only for size, but for voracity and numbers.
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Her rapaciousness engaged her to give endless disturbance and interruption to commerce.
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Even more so than in Bridesmaids, McCarthy plays sexual rapaciousness dead straight.
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And free love delivers the weak up to the rapaciousness of the strong.
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His kind of rapaciousness, it doesn't end.
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The provinces groaned at once under all the severity of public imposition and the rapaciousness of private usury.
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Indeed their excessive voraciousness on such occasions produces, especially after long fasting, all the symptoms of drunkenness.
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At table, a man may with decency have a distinguishing palate; but indiscriminate voraciousness degrades him to a glutton.
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You may be able to charge through books, periodicals or other things with a voraciousness that might even surprise you.
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He brings in with him a primitive voraciousness, and, I am confident, carries away with him a fairly healthy appetite.
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She surrounds herself with a cacophony of arrangements that draw with magpie-like voraciousness on pop, rock, reggae and indie influences.
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The edacity of jealousy is unappeasable:
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Nor did this satisfy the rapacity of Mohammed Ali and the English.
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Romans never mutinied, save through the rapacity or incompetence of their general.
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Their disinterestedness presented a striking contrast to the rapacity of the French.
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His tall, gaunt, craggy figure had a suggestion of hunger and rapacity.
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Now for some years the rapacity of maritime peoples has been checked.
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The worst enemy of Pompey never charged him with corruption or rapacity.
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On one was a satire on the hypocritical rapacity of perfidious Albion.
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His folly is only equalled by his rapacity, and both are stupendous.
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What then are the hopes and prospects of covetousness, ambition, and rapacity?
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The fierce rapacity of the Navailles was equally feared and hated.
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With the rapacity Kidd had the cruelty of his odious calling.
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We are as the unhappy Indians to the rapacity of Europe.
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But nothing would satisfy your rapacity; you had resolved to quarrel with us.
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The financial shrewdness and rapacity of property is worthy of admiration.
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The ferocious rapacity of his servant had set his pride upon its guard.
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Their cruelty and rapacity knew no bounds, and filled Athens with universal dismay.
