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Keywords: extorting, greediness, exorbitant, injustice, oppressive

The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.

Keywords: reprehensible, insatiable, personified, deadly, sins

reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Keywords: wolves, ravenousness, pirates, quality

The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.

Keywords: gluttony, extreme

extreme gluttony

Keywords: thrift, industry, power, providence

Providence without industry. The thrift of power.