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

Is there today another such clear connection between a party’s particular policy and the party’s cupidity?

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

“Our enemies are not man,” he wrote Dr. King in 1966, but “intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred and discrimination which lie within the heart of man.”

From New York Times • May 16, 2019

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

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks