Translations for „rapacity“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

rapacity [rəˈpæsəti, Am -ət̬i] N no pl

rapacity

zachłanność f

rapacity

chciwość f

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English

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

The public, as usual, has been righteously enraged at the arrogance and rapacity of their masters.

www.echo.net.au

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

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

He attacked speculators and bureaucrats for what he saw as their rapacity and lack of imagination.

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

He is, after all, accused of extreme rapacity.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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

Too often, it was licensed rapacity, and there are more victims yet to come.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

The illness might simply be her rapacity.

blogs.crikey.com.au