Adjective : a rapacious disposition. From Dictionary.com.
Kind of makes you wonder, is rapaciousness always a pejorative?. From Wordnik.com. [ere the cock crows thrice] Reference
They have always been caused by the rapaciousness of the leaders. From Wordnik.com. [The Multiple Faces of War] Reference
And, their biggest threat is the rapaciousness of the corporate oligarchy. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
The will to build a great country must be stronger than personal rapaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Rev. Jesse Jackson: Why Africa Matters] Reference
Almost entirely because of the cluelessness and rapaciousness of the operators. previous. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Kenya: Where Social Networks Meet Mobile Phones] Reference
The scholarly element is a kind of benediction on human rapaciousness, it purifies it and elevates it. From Wordnik.com. [Dumbarton Oaks Museum reopens] Reference
The third factor responsible for the country's decline is the size and rapaciousness of the government. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom for Zimbabwe] Reference
I wasn't talking so much about their supposed rapaciousness as the apparently hypocrisy in your position. From Wordnik.com. [in no way threatening to me] Reference
A hundred years ago, the rapaciousness of the business elite spawned a century of war and social conflict. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Smiley: CEO President] Reference
But we cannot have this scenario being projected of male rapaciousness and brutality and female victimage. From Wordnik.com. [Crisis In The American Universities] Reference
That is, the lives of BILLIONS were placed in jeopardy by the rapaciousness of Lockheed, Boeing and company. From Wordnik.com. ["District 9" and UHC] Reference
The rapaciousness of media occurs in the same manner that the rapaciousness of corporations like A.I.G. occurs. From Wordnik.com. [Printing: When Corporate Pirates Commit Class Economic Rape] Reference
The Palestinians of East Jerusalem are not the first to experience urban blight, or the rapaciousness of government. From Wordnik.com. [If Israel Controlled America, Afghan War Would End] Reference
Here was a naive young woman, I thought, who probably didn't fully understand the rapaciousness of what she was exploring. From Wordnik.com. [The Jigsaw Man]
That Bolivia has huge social problems that predate even the rapaciousness of the Patiño familiy does not deserve discussion. From Wordnik.com. [Chavez's bolivarian riot breeding! Love child Evo expected in Bolivia!] Reference
But it finally comes down to being able to eat enough and have a safe place out of the cold or heat, or someone's rapaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: What is the World Coming To?] Reference
Why is he not rather angry at their cruelty? why is he not offended at their perfidy? why does he not reprove their rapaciousness?. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference
According to the prosecution, they reveal in vivid detail the hypocrisy, cynicism, and sheer rapaciousness of Marshall and his enablers. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle for Mrs. Astor] Reference
Malays grant feelings to that part of a woman: hunger, sadness, kindness, rapaciousness, hesitancy, shame, anger-anything and everything. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Malays grant feelings to that part of a woman: hunger, sadness, kindness, rapaciousness, hesitancy, shame, anger — anything and everything. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
But Gloria exulted in each one, tearing at the tissue-paper and excelsior with the rapaciousness of a dog digging for a bone, breathlessly seizing. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
Vanderwater read the document, was satisfied with the truth of it and, for all his rapaciousness and cruelty, actually conducted an investigation. From Wordnik.com. [“. . . in the stiff, dead fingers, the petition of his slaves who toiled in Hell's Bottom.”] Reference
Underlying the Iraq War and Occupation is a political rapaciousness and will in the CheneyBush Administration that leads inexorably to self-destructive behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Diving Deeper Into the Muck of Bush Scandals] Reference
But here too, Smith portrays "the invisible hand" as a powerful, superhuman force that makes things turn out right, in spite of human selfishness and rapaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Sandy Goodman: Whatever Happened To "The Magic Of The Marketplace" And "The Invisible Hand?"] Reference
You find humility and rapaciousness, madness and brilliance here, just as you found them in the days of another empire, and thus you learn the most basic lesson of all. From Wordnik.com. [American Caesars by Nigel Hamilton] Reference
Nature and indigenous populations, meanwhile, are treated with dewy sentimentalism that discounts the achievements of civilization and the rapaciousness of nature itself. From Wordnik.com. [John McQuaid: Avatar: No Fantasy] Reference
They added insults to cruelty, and scoffs to rapaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4] Reference
The eyes had opened a little wider, as if with a stimulated rapaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Desert] Reference
If capitalism spots a new market, it will move with enormous speed and rapaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Rss news feed for Morning Advertiser] Reference
Once we lived in what we saw; now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — Second Series] Reference
The amoral rapaciousness of credit card companies is solely to blame for this "crisis" of increasing credit card defaults. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Tape Chronicles] Reference
Thus, the new deal programs only prevented the worst of poverty's rapaciousness without actually pulling us out of the depression. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
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