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Перевод: rapacity

[существительное]
жадность ; ненасытность ; прожорливость ; хищность

Тезаурус:

1. He had created an empire in the March with all the speed and rapacity of his supplanted rival the younger Despenser, and from this base he ruled England.
2. Commercial law-suits involving Athenians, arising in allied cities, were transferred to the Athenian courts; the resulting congestion of business led to loud complaints of the law's delays and the rapacity of Athenian lodging-house keepers; but none are known against Athenian fairness, though we do not lack anti-imperialist witnesses.
3. Although the romance has powered many a writer, notably Stevenson, some latter-day Scots take the harder, colder view of the pretender - such as the novelist and poet Iain Crichton-Smith, who, in his novel The Dream, has one of his characters muse, "He was an evil ghost who had drifted into the Highlands, like some kind of vaporous poison, with his powdered hair and his boyish rapacity for adventure, intoxicated by the new air, the mountains, the lochs, the heather, and by his selfish opportunism he had brought tragedy on the Highlands.
4. John of Marmoutier tells the legend that Geoffrey le Bel dressed up as a rustic and listened to complaints about his prvts " rapacity; on his return to court, he paid back the sums they had extorted, and threatened them with death if they continued to defraud the peasantry.
5. The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites; nobles such as the king's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk, who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court, hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king's presence; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward's regime.
6. Sylvanus represents the rapacity of land owners seeking greater profit or "enjoyment" from their property.
7. With so much media space currently devoted to the heinous depredations the naked ape has inflicted on his habitat, it seems an inappropriate moment to celebrate the career of an artist whose entire work reflects his abiding faith in mankind; an artist who gloried in presenting humanity dressed up in the paraphernalia of a glamorous performer, or as an honest victim of other men's rapacity, so as to elicit for him the onlooker's sympathy.
8. And as if to make amends for the rapacity of his Victorian forebears and their employers, he re-discovered species - notably the holly fern - long thought extinct in Snowdonia.
9. This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions (Dunbabin 1965; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4): "democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous, and expected to lead to extravagance, inefficiency, or even rapacity and disorder" (Dunbabin 1963:227).
10. But in its decline, as Ivy Compton-Burnett depicts it, the ancestral house becomes a mere rapacity for lost estate.
11. In the event, this was an underestimate, and it has totally falsified the belief that the disabled would become the victims of the manufacturers' rapacity.
12. The salesman and Hank, however, seemed to have reached some agreement and strolled towards the office, where fat old Josh presided over the financing section with the careful rapacity of a born moneylender.
13. This is a prize that should be treated with contempt, for, like most Japanese gifts to museums and other "cultural" interventions, it is no more than camouflage for their commercial and industrial rapacity, and at its worst is an anaesthetic that renders the recipient quite helpless to protest.