Translations for „rapacity“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

rapacity [rəˈpæsətɪ, Am -t̬ɪ] N no pl

rapacity

жа́дность f

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English

He is, after all, accused of extreme rapacity.

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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.

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The illness might simply be her rapacity.

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The people, who felt the severity of his laws, at the same time acknowledged their justice, and found themselves protected from the rapacity of their superiors.

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

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

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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.

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Rapacity came from afar to subjugate them for a hundred years.

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Bosses of the stock market's largest firms are banking lottery win salaries, and the rapacity meter is heading unstoppably upwards.

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It is told that his rapacity knew no bounds, that he exercised his office solely for his own advantage.

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