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insatiableness

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

贪得无厌,贪婪无厌,贪婪,贪婪无度

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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

  • One need only look at Dressel’s YouTube page to recognize his insatiable thirst for dominance.

  • The earlier boom accelerated when a collapse in interest rates created insatiable issuer demand.

  • Unfortunately, the way digital currency works today rewards energy waste—and it’s not clear that even a good-faith effort to use cleaner sources could justify the market’s insatiable appetite for power.

  • At some point even the seemingly insatiable American consumer is going to have had his fill.

  • Perhaps Pappy fans are so insatiable that they even want the detritus of their favorite tot.

  • Rather, he is portrayed not as someone who happens to be bisexual, but as a man with an insatiable appetite.

  • This was a woman with an insatiable appetite for the visual world and the talent to capture it on film.

  • The book depicts Bezos and Amazon as hard-charging, insatiable, and excessively secretive.

  • Mankind, mad with the energy of activity, would be seen to pursue the fleeing phantom of insatiable desire.

  • Sometimes he spent the whole night upon some score he wished to lay before his insatiable teacher on the following day.

  • The insatiable thirst for that which is beyond and which veils life, is the most lively proof of our immortality.

  • The woolly stems of the millet, likewise, defied their insatiable appetites.

  • Each side considers its own interests exclusively, and religious opinions are but a cloak for insatiable ambition.