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insatiability

/in-sey-shuh-buhl, -shee-uh-/US // ɪnˈseɪ ʃə bəl, -ʃi ə- //UK // (ɪnˈseɪʃəbəl, -ʃɪə-) //

贪得无厌,贪婪,贪欲,贪婪无厌

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased: insatiable hunger for knowledge.

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Examples

  • Hunger for information, for certainty in an uncertain time, has been insatiable.

  • But the prevailing emotion that day, even among us awardees, was a bemused sense of boredom, restlessness and insatiability.

  • His predominant quality is a passion 237 for the terrible, a kind of insatiability for wild and violent action.

  • He has given too much explanation, not too little, for his mind has an insatiability for reasons.

  • The insatiability of these females, who may be met with in all classes of society, may become fabulous.

  • Their insatiability (in contemplation) is to be understood in the sense that satiety does not make them scorn what satiates them.

  • Young people flitting about in droves driven by insatiability and their peculiar disease, leisure and unapplied brains.