Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.
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- noun
greediness ;voracity ;rapacity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun excessive desire to eat
- noun extreme gluttony
Etymologies
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Examples
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And they have the edacity to say are troops were wrong.
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And they have the edacity to say are troops were wrong.
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Obesity is reaching epidemic proportions as we wantonly indulge our edacity.
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Disgust and edacity; laziness that cannot rest; futile ambition, revenge, non-admiralship: -- O, within that carbuncled skin what a confusion of confusions sits bottled!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Come whosesoever head is hot; thou of mind ungoverned, be it chaos as of undevelopment or chaos as of ruin; the man who cannot get known, the man who is too well known; if thou have any vendible faculty, nay if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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In his classic "Bonfire of the Vanities," Tom Wolfe's Masters of the Universe were thinly disguised Wall Street megalomaniacs suffering from gluttonous edacity.
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In his classic "Bonfire of the Vanities," Tom Wolfe's Masters of the Universe were thinly disguised Wall Street megalomaniacs suffering from gluttonous edacity.
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No guide book had adequately prepared us for the edacity of India's street peddlers.
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Then the Basta*** have the edacity to bring their idiot friends to the same place after telling them it’s private property and they must be with me and not to bring someone else without permission.
jaime_d commented on the word edacity
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
March 6, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word edacity
Jean Valjean's edacity gave him the audacity to steal bread for his sister's children.
January 6, 2012