Adjective : a voracious appetite. ,voracious readers; a voracious collector. From Dictionary.com.
American voraciousness is what caused the economic collapse. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Causes of the Collapse] Reference
He ate with mysterious speed and voraciousness, talking the whole time. From Wordnik.com. [Never Hold Your Best Stuff] Reference
Watch the commericals…they protect the voraciousness of their sponsors. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » At What Price?] Reference
Once we produce billionaires without values, there is no telling where their voraciousness will stop. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Making Money at Any Cost] Reference
It's male voraciousness with female witlessness, exhibitionism and self-proffering for ritual sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. ['We're Getting Clinton Now As He Really Is.'] Reference
The subjects hate that king who earns a notoriety for voraciousness of appetite (in the matter of taxes and imposts). From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
At table, a man may with decency have a distinguishing palate; but indiscriminate voraciousness degrades him to a glutton. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
Indeed their excessive voraciousness on such occasions produces, especially after long fasting, all the symptoms of drunkenness. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh Undertaken to Explore the Coast, and Visit the Esquimaux in That Unknown Region] Reference
The American Vampire series continues to explore that manifest voraciousness of America through the decades, including the birth of Las Vegas as desert Gomorrah. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Riffs Interview: 'American Vampire's' SCOTT SNYDER on vampires, Vertigo & collaborator Stephen King] Reference
Ever since I started reading, I've matched her literary voraciousness (and sadly I outstrip her now that she's legally blind), but all my recommendations have bounced off. From Wordnik.com. [Batman Begins] Reference
The thin man's unexpected voraciousness reminds me of the last time I saw him. From Wordnik.com. [SF Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference
By "the belly" here he means not the stomach, but the stomach's voraciousness. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
People still read etiquette manuals today, but not with the voraciousness that they did a century ago. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
At the height of his fame, unable to handle its voraciousness, he even called up Robert De Niro for advice. From Wordnik.com. [Film | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Instead, they seem a test of sorts, to see where the voraciousness of consumers 'media consumption will end. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Cousin, said Hadifah, wishing to quiz him, what large mouthfuls you take; Heaven defend us from your voraciousness!. From Wordnik.com. [Antar :] Reference
He brings in with him a primitive voraciousness, and, I am confident, carries away with him a fairly healthy appetite. From Wordnik.com. [The People of the Abyss] Reference
It was a surreal but amusing moment, and I confess to being strangely impressed by his audacity, his unashamed voraciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Advertising Age - Homepage] Reference
But never before has she had an opportunity on this scale, and she seizes it with a voraciousness in keeping with her subject. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Despite the impression the authors give, though, judging the velocity or voraciousness of a prostate cancer can still be imprecise. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
It is nature's last and most reluctant way of restoring to sustainable populations species whose numbers and voraciousness have run amok. From Wordnik.com. [How to Save the World] Reference
I'd advise her to get a grip, except that she's clutching her heart with such voraciousness that I think it would be best if she would loosen it, instead. From Wordnik.com. [Vh1 Blog] Reference
Insects are likely to benefit from our warming climate, with new data linking past spikes in temperature with increased voraciousness in plant-eating insects. From Wordnik.com. Reference
While Ford ate with a controlled voraciousness which spoke eloquently of his twenty-four hours of fasting and exposure, Mason gossiped inattentively and studied the man. From Wordnik.com. [The Uphill Climb] Reference
The decisions taken by the government, he argued, "benefit bankers, big businessmen, traffickers and corrupt politicians who for their voraciousness are destroying this country". From Wordnik.com. [Green Left Weekly issue #746] Reference
It’s this voraciousness Maggie loves, I’m sure of it—and talent, such a turn-on. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Savage] Reference
A primitive voraciousness, and, I am confident, carries away with him a fairly healthy appetite. From Wordnik.com. [Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses] Reference
Twice in two days, however, I’ve felt the urgency of that voraciousness for texts, in entirely different settings. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
Lucilla Kettering had been hunting married men with the voraciousness of a hungry lioness since the first day she’d set foot out of the schoolroom. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
Sanitkasan: pathological voraciousness. From Wordnik.com. [No Fat Clips!!! : [BEST OF] November 2007 – pt.1] Reference
German voraciousness can never be satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [World's War Events $v Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919.] Reference
Synonyms included avarice, covetousness, gluttony, insatiability, piggishness, ravenousness and voraciousness. From Wordnik.com. [John Stossel is Inducted into Mammon's Hall of Fame] Reference
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