insatiable

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If ever a hieroglyphic sign expressed an animal, it was assuredly this written name, in which the first and the final letter approached each other like the voracious jaws of a shark,--insatiable, always open, seeking whom to devour, both strong and weak.

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  1. adjective Impossible to satiate or satisfy: an insatiable appetite; an insatiable hunger for knowledge.

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  • He was tender and insatiable, as if Tess embodied the dreams hovering close. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 01] - Baltimore Blues
  • Your ambition is insatiable, and will destroy you. —  The Private Life of Napoleon, V7
  • Their hunger for power and importance is insatiable, and it makes them mean. —  Isaac Asimov - Murder at the ABA
  • Captain Jones, our superintendent of the steel works at a later day, described me as having been born “with two rows of teeth and holes punched for more,” so insatiable was my appetite for new works and increased production. —  Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
  • From Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe: bashers: The 43d president's power-lust is so insatiable, his disdain for constitutional checks and balances so complete, that he has fashioned himself into a dictator ... org considers it substantially misleading —  Blogrunner
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  1. Middle English insaciable, from Old French, from Latin īnsatiābilis : in-, not; see in-1 + satiāre, to fill; see satiate.

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  1. = French insatiable = Spanish insaciable = Portuguese insaciavel = Italian insaziabile, from Latin insatiabilis, that cannot be satisfied, from in- privative + satiabilis, that can be satisfied: see satiable.
 

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