rapacity

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rapacious
In our case, how did the rapacious tyrant arrange the theft?
It is also in such merchant states that a rapacious state or misguided policies are most likely to cause harm to and alienate the peasantry.
Victorian studies has been not just capacious, but even rapacious.
The vulture as landlord is more dreadfully rapacious than he is as a bird.
The word 'cruelty' must be taken in the broad sense, and not in the rapacious physical sense.
It is also a matter of everyday comment that the elders through whom the kola flows in exchange for favours, and indeed the chiefs themselves, are a rapacious lot.
No rapacious elites dependent on taxes for their power and incomes had developed to lend their conditional support for fiscal innovations, followed inevitably by uplifts in taxation.
The hydra-headed monster of nationalism is a rapacious beast which, when given the opportunity to feed, tends to devour peoples, populations and nations.
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