Crossword-Solution: RAPACITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rapacity | n. | The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves. |
| Rapacity | n. | The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “RAPACITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| insatiability | 2 answers |
| Voraciousness | 2 answers |
| ruttishness | 5 answers |
| Greediness | 5 answers |
| avidity | 8 answers |
| free loading | 9 answers |
| Libido | 9 answers |
| ACQUISITIVENESS | 11 answers |
| bloodsucking | 11 answers |
| leechlike | 11 answers |
| parasitical | 11 answers |
| scrounging | 11 answers |
| Parasitic | 12 answers |
| sponging | 12 answers |
| rut | 21 answers |
| Gluttony | 21 answers |
| Avarice | 21 answers |
| dueness | 25 answers |
| Greed | 29 answers |
| Claim | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RAPACITY (5)
While they are made to depict the motives and passions of men, they retain, in an eminent degree, their own special features of craft or counsel, of cowardice or courage, of generosity or rapacity.
Tell him that we yield to his rapacity, as in similar circumstances we should do to that of a literal robber.
There I see the tenderest ties ruthlessly broken, to gratify the lust, caprice, and rapacity of the buyers and sellers of men.
Murel was his equal in boldness; in pluck; in rapacity; in cruelty, brutality, heartlessness, treachery, and in general and comprehensive vileness and shamelessness; and very much his superior in some larger aspects.
Trenor’s complaints of Carry Fisher’s rapacity, and saw that they denoted an unexpected acquaintance with her husband’s private affairs.
Quotes with RAPACITY (3)
Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war, saving the life of captain Johanne in the process; I had escaped the dungeons of Fortress Drachensbett, and after an arduous journey successfully reunited with my double, so preserving her, and all Montagne, from Prince Flonian's rapacity, I would somehow master the despicable art of being a princess.
And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be a hard driving businessman, yet he found the rapacity of many vendors unconscionable. As he told George Mason, he thought it the intent of the speculators, various tribes of money makers and stock jobbers of all denominations, to continue the war for their own private emolument, without considering that their avarice and thirst for gain must plunge everything in one common ruin.
But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a Christian than there is between the humility of a lover and the rapacity of a lover. The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy. There never was a man in love who did not declare that, if he strained every nerve to breaking, he was going to have his desire. And ther…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1977–1988).