单词	rapacity
释义	rapaciousra‧pa‧cious /rəˈpeɪʃəs/ adjective formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINrapacious Origin: 1600-1700 Latin rapax, from rapere; ➔ RAPE1 Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES rapacious real estate developers EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Gregory regarded these claims as being marks of particular wickedness, and he saw the Merovingians as being, for the most part, rapacious. In Shakespeare, hypocrisy is linked inseparably with that rapacious egoism that is willing to destroy all in order to advance itself. It was a horrendous, rapacious strategy that they had used to gain control of their own home system. The principle of rapacious egoism, Shakespeare shows, does not let up once it has achieved its first-formulated goal. Their officers, though more sophisticated, were equally rapacious. These factors must bulk larger in the explanation of depopulation than the sixteenth-century writers' scapegoat, the rapacious landlords. They haven't done anything about the rapacious exploitation of the poor in the ghetto. always wanting more money, goods etc than you need or have a right to SYN  greedy:  rapacious landlords—rapaciously adverb—rapacity /rəˈpæsəti/ noun [uncountable]
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