Rapacity in a sentence as a noun

My experience was not with user rapacity but with partner rapacity.

Their arrogance and rapacity blinded them to the reality that they cannot deny information to the world.

It may be that the paranoiac rapacity of the hack is the reason KT didn't put any finer point on such implications in his speech ...Again, with the intelligence thing.

People in publishing were complaining about her rapacity; she had to squeeze her publisher, Farrar Strauss and Giroud of what would be several million dollars today for a book advance.

Also note this passage, as a counter-point:>>[The rich] consume little more than the poor, and in spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity…they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements.

As someone who has been screwed by "rapacity", all I can say is be very very careful being "nice".As Pink Floyd said in a song "You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to, so that when they turn their backs on you.

Conversely it is the threat of a return to the traditional zero-sum rapacity of the capital-rich against the capital-poor since 2008 that has led to the retreat we see in political and economic freedom almost everywhere.

If lawlessness is aided, it becomes current; if there are symptoms of dissipation and licence, they will become the practice; if there is a foster-mother for transgressions, they will arise; if there are opportunities for the rapacity of the wicked, they will never cease.

How rich would Finland, Sweden, Austria, and Poland really be today had they never colonized Africa or subjugated and enslaved its industrious inhabitants, and how rich would Ethiopia be if it had been spared from the ravages of European rapacity?

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”And:“[The rich] consume little more than the poor, and in spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity…they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements.

Otto, a conservative Christian, argued that all religious experience has its roots in what is initially misrecognized as ‘daemonic dread’; he saw encounters with ghosts, similarly, as a perverted version of what the Christian person would experience religiously.> Capital can never openly admit that it is a system based on inhuman rapacity; the Terminator can never remove its human mask.

A country that attacks with what is difficult will gain ten points for every one point that it undertakes, whereas a country that attacks with what is easy will lose a hundred men for every ten that it marches out....Sophistry and cleverness are an aid to lawlessness; rites and music are symptoms of dissipations and licence; kindness and benevolence are the foster-mother of transgressions; employment and promotion are opportunities for the rapacity of the wicked.

Rapacity definitions

noun

extreme gluttony

See also: edacity esurience rapaciousness voracity voraciousness

noun

reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

See also: avarice greed covetousness avaritia