cupidity

Example Sentences

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Accessorizing—and the popularization of it—breeds cupidity, to a degree, which has been accentuated by social media, according to research.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2024

The dribbling of classic works into the public domain every year on Jan. 1 may be gratifying, but it also serves to underscore the stupidity and cupidity of our convoluted copyright system.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2022

Some of them are accurately described as such, but all are so described because of prudence in the service of cupidity.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2019

Their cupidity quickly becomes an existential threat to all of the people and things that define the city, condemning them to a subterranean life at the bottom of the void.

From The Verge • Sep. 1, 2018

The coins in his hand, he stared at her, helpless before his own cupidity.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks