cupidity

Example Sentences

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Throughout her art, her moving images feature avatars of herself that she endows with a vital mixture of ego and exhaustion, cupidity and love.

From New York Times

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

From Washington Post

A hundred years ago, he issued a prescient warning: if the majority unites today to oppress others, then "tomorrow the unity will break under the strain of cupidity or false religiosity".

From BBC

Preaching progressivism — deploring the cupidity of rich, denouncing tax cuts for them — is more exhilarating than practicing it.

From Washington Post

The commission explained that public health policies would “protect one set of human beings from being the victims of disease and death through the selfish cupidity of others.”

From New York Times