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ra·pac·ity [rəˈpæsəti, Am -ət̬i] N no pl

rapacity

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English
The federal system sits a centre like a leviathan in shallow waters, ponderous, stuck and "swimless," and at the mercy of the nibbling rapacity of a swarm of small fishes.
thenationonlineng.net
The illness might simply be her rapacity.
blogs.crikey.com.au
Our cruelty, culpability and rapacity is now taught routinely in our schools and universities whenever the subject of our imperial past is raised.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Bosses of the stock market's largest firms are banking lottery win salaries, and the rapacity meter is heading unstoppably upwards.
www.mirror.co.uk
Rapacity came from afar to subjugate them for a hundred years.
www.independent.co.uk
He attacked speculators and bureaucrats for what he saw as their rapacity and lack of imagination.
en.wikipedia.org
The public, as usual, has been righteously enraged at the arrogance and rapacity of their masters.
www.echo.net.au
It is told that his rapacity knew no bounds, that he exercised his office solely for his own advantage.
en.wikipedia.org
It is, therefore, unrealistic to expect that the economy would not collapse under such mindless rapacity that has unleashed on us politics of do-or-die.
www.vanguardngr.com
Evil is manifest in the rapacity of the appetitive self, and where it exists in men it constitutes their fallenness, a secular notion in the play.
en.wikipedia.org

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