rapacity

/ruh-pey-shuhs/US // rəˈpeɪ ʃəs //UK // (rəˈpeɪʃəs) //

肆意妄为,贪婪,肆意挥霍,暴利

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- : inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate: a rapacious disposition.
- : subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious.

nounplunder

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noungreed

Synonyms

Though I’m not sure I realized that till I was grown and married myself, and only because I could feel its absence My parents’ life together started with a rapacious, let’s elope kind of love.
Even as we cheer for her stamina, we shrink from her rapacity.
Thus the rapacity of Capital defeats itself, and actually impoverishes its owners when it deprives Labor of a fair reward.
This is one of the truths which sloth, rapacity and extravagance are slow to learn, yet which they cannot safely ignore.
Could I dream that nothing would satisfy your rapacity but my destruction?
I would excuse the rapacity of the Mahajan if it has succeeded in keeping the gambling die or toddy from the ryot's home.
For Torrington's weakness and negligence caused ten times as much mischief as his rapacity.

/ruh-pey-shuhs/US // rəˈpeɪ ʃəs //UK // (rəˈpeɪʃəs) //

肆意妄为,贪婪,肆意挥霍,暴利

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- : inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate: a rapacious disposition.
- : subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious.

nounplunder

Synonyms

Antonyms

noungreed

Synonyms

Though I’m not sure I realized that till I was grown and married myself, and only because I could feel its absence My parents’ life together started with a rapacious, let’s elope kind of love.
Even as we cheer for her stamina, we shrink from her rapacity.
Thus the rapacity of Capital defeats itself, and actually impoverishes its owners when it deprives Labor of a fair reward.
This is one of the truths which sloth, rapacity and extravagance are slow to learn, yet which they cannot safely ignore.
Could I dream that nothing would satisfy your rapacity but my destruction?
I would excuse the rapacity of the Mahajan if it has succeeded in keeping the gambling die or toddy from the ryot's home.
For Torrington's weakness and negligence caused ten times as much mischief as his rapacity.