(n.) An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
(n.) An inordinate desire for some supposed good.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tragedy of Latin American health planning has been that the wisdom of their approach, which seeks to concern health consumers first rather than cater to the avarice of health producers as is done in the U.S., has not been matchable by the level of technological and political sophistication needed to bring it off.
(2) Under the cover of this administration’s constant cloud of chaos – some deliberately generated by Trump, much of it foisted upon him by his incompetence and avarice – this shared agenda is being pursued with methodical and unblinking focus.
(3) We didn’t want to do the manufacturing ourselves: we wanted a business to take on the idea, make the bikes, and bring us riches beyond the dreams of avarice.
(4) Combination of sclerotherapy with portal antihypertensive medication might become the treatment of choice until eradication of varices has been achieved; thereafter either continued medication or repeated endoscopy will maintain an avariceal state and effective prevention of recurrent variceal bleeding.
(5) He was the perfect 80s movie star, an emblem of American avarice, beloved of all the housewives.
(6) He display- ed no signs of personal avarice; he cut his presidential salary when he came to power, and lopped off a further third of it as a regular donation to a children's fund.
(7) Three hours of sexual and pharmacological excess, wanton debauchery, unfathomable avarice, gleeful misogyny, extreme narcotic brinksmanship, malfeasance and lawless behaviour is a lot to take, and some have complained of the film's relentlessness, which, if understood in formal terms, I think may be one of its main aims.
(8) You’re more likely to die at weekends because of junior doctors’ avarice and indolence.
(9) "We can see the results: the government cronies get rich – some beyond their wildest dreams of avarice – while the people stay poor."
(10) We could ascribe all of these investments to some kind of misplaced avarice.
(11) I am a Bollinger Bolshevik, apparently, because I believe I should have a final say in what my tickets cost, in order to manage audience expectation of the work itself, to control perceptions of my own apparent avarice and to make sure that money that is spent on me by punters reflects the cost savings I and the venue have cut corners to make, and the public subsidies the venue may have received, all of which are designed to make entry to the show viable, so that all sorts of people can come along and think I am shit together.
(12) We can see the results: the government cronies get rich – some beyond their wildest dreams of avarice – while the people stay poor."
(13) Quite the opposite is true.” FSG has been stung by accusations of avarice and protests that threaten Klopp’s ideal of unity between fans and the club.
(14) The flower of English football is being eaten by canker worms of money and avarice.
(15) On transparency, he slams countries - such as in Africa - who: rip off hard working people and plunder natural resources... Government officials get rich, some beyond their wildest dreams of avarice.
(16) Yesterday it was the Barclays board, avatars of avarice overseeing rewards beyond any conceivable fair share – a 10% rise in bonuses despite a 32% fall in profits.
(17) Even the star of the Hunger Games, Jennifer Lawrence, chose to publicly tut at her own employer’s avarice (“I think it’s too soon.
(18) Now his emotions spewed, they shot out: fear, anxiety, worry, power, thirst, hunger, lust, avarice, hubris … He's feeling everything and he's alive.
(19) A s a parable of avarice, it is surely much older than the internet that has recently given it a new lease of life.
(20) When all the outlandish trappings of an extraordinary event have begun to fade and gather dust in the memory, when we have grown vague about the wheeling and dealing involved, about how ethnic pride and financial avarice became ardent bedmates, when we scarcely smile at the remembered sight of Bundini Brown planting a kiss and a “Float like a butterfly” biro on President Mobutu or the more appealing but equally unlikely spectacle of an attractive young black woman breast-feeding her baby in the third row ringside, where accommodation cost $250 a place without mention of meals – when that distant day comes, what will remain utterly undiminished is the excitement of Muhammad Ali’s performance.
Rapacity
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
(n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scott's film, which starred Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba, centred on the human crew of a spaceship sent to investigate a distant planet where the answers to mankind's origins may lie hidden.
(2) Gandolfini, who died of a heart attack last June at the age of 51, features alongside Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace in the Brooklyn-set film, which is directed by Oscar-nominated Belgian film-maker Michael R Roskam.
(3) A combination of uncontrolled breeding and rapacity is propelling us down the slippery slope 1st envisioned by Malthus, dragging the rest of the planet along.
(4) It's totally appropriate for government to regulate the terms of sale of a harmful product, and to safeguard public health from corporate rapacity – in the same way we've done with tobacco.
(5) This is why Britain’s historical amnesia about the rapacity of its rule in India is so deplorable.
(6) When his bar is hit by a gang of robbers, he sees his life and those of his cousin Marv (Gandolfini) and partner Nadia (Rapace) thrown into chaos.
(7) The Wrap suggests the sequel will continue where the first movie left off, with Rapace's God-fearing archeologist accompanying Fassbender's David on a journey to find the home of the Engineers, a mysterious alien race with a genetic link to homo sapiens.
(8) This is the era of the dotcom boom and, in the literary world, the rapid expansion of the list of Andrew Wylie , the agent known as "the Jackal" for his rapacity; a time of dizzying auctions, huge advances for authors, and newly short lunches.
(9) However, more recently, his ability to capture the demolition of the soul of decent people, as the social contract between citizen and government is ripped apart by the rapacity of neoliberalism, has hit a wider target.
(10) The film, which stars Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Guy Pearce and Idris Elba, opens in the UK on 1 June.
(11) The Sopranos star, who died of a heart attack on 19 June in Italy, appears as a bar owner, opposite Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace, in the film.
(12) Many modern apologists for British colonial rule in India no longer contest the basic facts of imperial exploitation and plunder, rapacity and loot, which are too deeply documented to be challengeable.
(13) The Barcelona attacker has now struck 43 times for his country, but individual rapacity cannot necessarily keep pace with a Germany line-up that has won its knockout phase fixtures 4-1, against England, and 4-0, against Argentina.
(14) The broadcaster cut to an ad break following a graphic scene of a "disturbing rape" of the film's main character Lisbeth Salander, played by actress Noomi Rapace, which included a close-up of her screaming.
(15) James Gandolfini’s penultimate film, Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said , screened to great warmth at the festival last year; this year, there’s a premiere for his final film, The Drop , co-starring Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace and shot just before his death in June 2013 .
(16) Doubly ironic, then, that we were the real Martians, and that many people – including quite a few scientists – believe that we're accomplishing that same scenario with equal rapacity.
(17) Tomorrow he's flying out to start work on Dead Man Down with Noomi Rapace, for director Niels Arden Oplev, who shot the Swedish-language version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo .
(18) The name Black Friday perfectly captures the heedless, bushfire rapacity of the event.