Sentence example with the word 'rapacity'

rapacity

acquisitiveness, claim, demand, gluttonousness, greediness, inordinate desire, itching palm, overgreediness, predacity, swinish gluttony

Definition n. extreme gluttony

Last update: October 17, 2015


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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.   [Please select]

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The financial shrewdness and rapacity of property is worthy of admiration.   [Please select]

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Scudamore had short jaws, well set up, and powerful, without rapacity.   [Please select]

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The barbaric chieftains yielded a partial homage to this spiritual power, and it was some check on their rapacity of violence.   [Please select]

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He denounced the gluttony of monks, the avarice of popes, and the rapacity of princes.   [Please select]

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No instance of rapacity or cruelty was ever charged against him, nor did he ever injure any woman or child.   [Please select]

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It designated the pagan inhabitants of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, who, driven by rapacity and want, infested the neighboring seas.   [Please select]

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