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Meanings of voracity in English
Catalan
rapacitat Synonyms
Examples for "rapacity"
Examples for "rapacity"
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.
1
Her rapaciousness engaged her to give endless disturbance and interruption to commerce.
2
Even more so than in Bridesmaids, McCarthy plays sexual rapaciousness dead straight.
3
And free love delivers the weak up to the rapaciousness of the strong.
4
His kind of rapaciousness, it doesn't end.
5
The provinces groaned at once under all the severity of public imposition and the rapaciousness of private usury.
1
Indeed their excessive voraciousness on such occasions produces, especially after long fasting, all the symptoms of drunkenness.
2
At table, a man may with decency have a distinguishing palate; but indiscriminate voraciousness degrades him to a glutton.
3
You may be able to charge through books, periodicals or other things with a voraciousness that might even surprise you.
4
He brings in with him a primitive voraciousness, and, I am confident, carries away with him a fairly healthy appetite.
5
She surrounds herself with a cacophony of arrangements that draw with magpie-like voraciousness on pop, rock, reggae and indie influences.
1
The mate with difficulty restrained them in their ravenousness.
2
There is the same ravenousness to his life.
3
It is frightening to think, but in Portlaoise Meath exhibited an even greater state of ravenousness than ever.
4
Even the best of women, even the most beautiful, and in their moments of supremest beauty, have this gross ravenousness for facts.
1
The edacity of jealousy is unappeasable:
Usage of voracity in English
1
They were listening with gloomy voracity to the instruction of a third.
2
The corpse was left, entirely naked, to the voracity of wild beasts.
3
A candle of yellow wax illuminated this scene of voracity and revery.
4
This meal was devoured by my worthy relative with avidity and voracity.
5
They were remarkable not only for size, but for voracity and numbers.
6
Deep in the night she roused him again with a wild voracity.
7
Bees, bumble bees, and even wasps were the victims of his strange voracity.
8
I love not only the way he plays but his intensity and voracity.
9
It appeared that we ski-runners evinced a far greater voracity than the drivers.
10
In South America they are known as gallinazos, and their voracity is unparalleled.
11
He swallows formulae with the voracity of Mirabeau, and like Proteus escapes analysis.
12
Richard afterwards learnt that this voracity of appetite was nerve begotten.
13
In their voracity the vermin frequently fastened their sharp fangs in my fingers.
14
Against their voracity no ordinary bar is a bar at all.
15
Caterpillars are surrounded by the implacable voracity of the Carabidae:
16
This was owing to the voracity of the early organisms.
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