Both Uses of
rapacious
in
Heart of Darkness
- But as I stood on this hillside, I foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.†
Chpt 1
- A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.†
Chpt 1 *
Definition:
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(rapacious as in: a rapacious cartel) excessively greedy -- often destructive