rapacity in English
the rapacity of landowners seeking greater profit from their property
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1. Unhappiness was sprung from rapacity.
2. 4 Here was neither guile nor rapacity.
3. 2 Unhappiness was sprung from rapacity.
4. Here was neither guile nor rapacity.
5. Another word for Cupidity: avarice, greed, acquisitiveness, rapacity, covetousness Collins English Thesaurus
6. 7 Critics who decry regulatory costs are dismissed as deluded apologists for corporate rapacity.
7. 17 synonyms for Avidity: edacity, omnivorousness, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, voracity
8. 3 Aristocratic criticism of royal rapacity was a backhanded tribute to that success.
9. Critics who decry regulatory costs are dismissed as deluded apologists for corporate rapacity.
10. 18 He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on "selfishness" and "rapacity".
11. Synonyms for Acquisitiveness include avarice, avidity, covetousness, greed, graspingness, rapaciousness, rapacity, cupidity, greediness and possessiveness
12. Synonyms for Avarice include acquisitiveness, covetousness, cupidity, greed, rapacity, graspingness, avariciousness, greediness, meanness and miserliness
13. 3 Critics who decry regulatory costs are dismissed as deluded apologists for corporate rapacity.
14. 12 In much of Western Europe, he is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity .
15. 18 synonyms for Acquisitiveness: greed, selfishness, avarice, rapacity, covetousness, avidity, rapaciousness, predatoriness, avidness, graspingness, avarice
16. 25 Moated Norfolk, Theodora thought, and moated house, defended against the falsity, rapacity and sheer ugliness of the metropolis.
17. 9 During the whole process of construction, the operational safty and rapacity of track must be guaranteed.
18. He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on "selfishness" and "rapacity".
19. 8 Moated Norfolk, Theodora thought, and moated house, defended against the falsity,[www.Sentencedict.com] rapacity and sheer ugliness of the metropolis.
20. The Bunyip is a fierce and avid hunter, possessing a primal ruthlessness that seems almost evil in its rapacity
21. 14 Jul 15 th 2010 TO DREAMERS in the West, Tibet is aShangridespoiled by Chinese ruthlessness and rapacity.
22. 6 The danger is that Chinese rapacity plus African leaders' greed equals the snuffing out of all hope.
23. 1 He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on "selfishness" and "rapacity".
24. The Bunyip is a fierce and avid hunter, possessing a primal ruthlessness that seems almost evil in its rapacity
25. 11 One throws over all the world and the other is full of rapacity (a word I am not so sure) to the world.
26. 13 China has a 1500-year history of bureaucratic administration, during which the main problem was to control the rapacity of local officials.
27. 10 Algorithm testing shows: The new maximum flow algorithm in network with both node and edge rapacity confined is completely feasible and availability effective.
28. 5 The experiment showed that the discharge rapacity of the MH electrode increased a little when 3% silver was added, but the amount of the gas escaped from the simulated cell was obviously reduced.
29. Avarice - reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) avaritia , greed , rapacity , covetousness deadly sin , mortal sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace; "theologians list seven mortal sins"
30. Stumpf also addressed once the commandment of the Bible, "Thou shalt not kill" and revealed some pacifistic tendencies, but time and again he expressed clearly conservative views when he ranted about the "perfidious Albion" (England) or against France's rapacity, when he showed satisfaction that England had finally to sacrifice rivers of blood, and he wanted to combine the last forces for the defence of the fatherland.