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Rapaciousness

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Noun

1. edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity

extreme gluttony

2. greediness, rapaciousness, voraciousness

an excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts)

Example Sentences:
'the greediness of lawyers'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Rapaciousness

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adjective
1. 
practising pillage or rapine
2. 
greedy or grasping
3. 
(of animals, esp birds) subsisting by catching living prey

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Rapaciousness

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adjective
1. 
taking by force; plundering
2. 
greedy or grasping; voracious
3. 
living on captured prey; predatory

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Rapaciousness

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adj.
1. Having or showing a strong or excessive desire to acquire money or possess things; greedy: "dishonest utilities and rapacious energy traders" (Paul Roberts).
2. Living by killing prey, especially in large numbers: rapacious coyotes.
3. Taking things by force; plundering: rapacious pirates.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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