0 the quality of having or showing a strong wish to take things for yourself, usually using unfair methods or force:
the rapacity of big corporations
Our rapacity is destroying species at a rate not seen in 65 million years.
He carried out his job with the careful rapacity of a born moneylender.
She talked angrily about the rapacity with which we have ransacked the earth's resources.
It is at this point that claims are made on the cultural item which had been lost due to one's own thoughtlessness and the other's rapacity.
Many railways then had to take devious and circuitous routes and incur additional expense and difficulties because of the rapacity of the landlords.
The rapacity of these moneylenders has not been curbed.
I never used them for that purpose or represented that any landlord acted with rapacity or made exorbitant or extravagant demands.
I never used them for that purpose, or represented that any landlord acted with rapacity or made exorbitant or extravagant demands.
