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Definition of rapacity in English: rapacitynoun rəˈpasɪtirəˈpæsədi mass nounAggressive greed. the rapacity of landowners seeking greater profit from their property Example sentencesExamples - It is not an effective instrument for protecting our people from the greed and rapacity of outsiders.
- While some have embraced democratic principles, others continue to rule through rapacity, despotism, and corruption.
- It's precisely that rapacity, that appetite, that makes them who they are, that allows them to recognize themselves.
- No situation, however obscure, or however sacred, escaped the rapacity of the enemy.
- This puts a limit on the rapacity of a patent holder.
Synonyms greed, avarice, rapaciousness, acquisitiveness, covetousness, materialism, predatoriness, voracity, voraciousness, graspingness, mercenariness, usury, extortion
Rhymesaudacity, capacity, fugacity, loquacity, mendacity, opacity, perspicacity, pertinacity, pugnacity, sagacity, sequacity, tenacity, veracity, vivacity, voracity Definition of rapacity in US English: rapacitynounrəˈpasədērəˈpæsədi Aggressive greed. the rapacity of landowners seeking greater profit from their property Example sentencesExamples - It's precisely that rapacity, that appetite, that makes them who they are, that allows them to recognize themselves.
- This puts a limit on the rapacity of a patent holder.
- No situation, however obscure, or however sacred, escaped the rapacity of the enemy.
- It is not an effective instrument for protecting our people from the greed and rapacity of outsiders.
- While some have embraced democratic principles, others continue to rule through rapacity, despotism, and corruption.
Synonyms greed, avarice, rapaciousness, acquisitiveness, covetousness, materialism, predatoriness, voracity, voraciousness, graspingness, mercenariness, usury, extortion
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