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rapacity - translation to English
rapacity
![''The Father and Mother'' by [[Boardman Robinson]] depicting War as the offspring of Greed and Pride](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The Father and Mother.jpg?width=200 "''The Father and Mother'' by [[Boardman Robinson]] depicting War as the offspring of Greed and Pride")
INSATIABLE LONGING FOR MATERIAL GAIN
Covetousness; Avarice; Greed (emotion); Money-grabbing; Cupidity; Plutomania; Greed (sin); Greeds; Avaritia; Peniaphobic; Peniaphobe; Rapacity
(n.) = avaricia, codicia, rapacidad
Ex: Britain's elites not only retain their power, they also exercise it with a shameless rapacity.
Ex: Britain's elites not only retain their power, they also exercise it with a shameless rapacity.
greed
INSATIABLE LONGING FOR MATERIAL GAIN
Covetousness; Avarice; Greed (emotion); Money-grabbing; Cupidity; Plutomania; Greed (sin); Greeds; Avaritia; Peniaphobic; Peniaphobe; Rapacity
(n.) = avaricia, codicia, rapacidad
Ex: Appeals to pride, status, greed, and many other aspects of man's nature are sometimes successful.
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* greed for = deseo de, ansias de, uso excesivo de, consumo excesivo de
Ex: Appeals to pride, status, greed, and many other aspects of man's nature are sometimes successful.
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* greed for = deseo de, ansias de, uso excesivo de, consumo excesivo de
greed
INSATIABLE LONGING FOR MATERIAL GAIN
Covetousness; Avarice; Greed (emotion); Money-grabbing; Cupidity; Plutomania; Greed (sin); Greeds; Avaritia; Peniaphobic; Peniaphobe; Rapacity
codicia [Noun]
Definition
rapacity
Rapacity is very greedy or selfish behaviour. (FORMAL)
He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on 'selfishness' and 'rapacity'.
N-UNCOUNT: oft with poss [disapproval]
Examples of use of rapacity
1. Not only has it not attempted to curb the rapacity of the banks, but it has itself behaved improvidently – and encouraged similar behaviour among the public.
2. All the facts show that the politico–economic instability and mess in the world have been triggered off by the U.S. unlimited imperialistic rapacity.
3. To make the islet an area of international dispute and grab it is one of the cunning and impudent territorial rapacity methods peculiar to Japan.
4. Thanks to the foolishness and rapacity of Applegarth and his colleagues at other banks, millions of British homeowners are now facing higher mortgage payments.
5. That US crisis was itself brought about by individual recklessness which was ruthlessly exploited by the cynicism and rapacity of major lending institutions which gave large mortgages to people with poor credit ratings.