cupidity

Example Sentences

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And cupidity, too, since all those teams think they can still make a safe cynical profit, thanks to revenue sharing, no matter how bad they are.

From Washington Post

“Jon Stewart manages to skewer cultural waste, arrogance, and cupidity without making his viewers feel ashamed.”

From The New Yorker

“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

Using national security as an excuse for economic foolishness, in the service of cupidity, is nothing new.

From Washington Post

Readers will find familiar analyses of the unrelenting, violent cupidity of European explorers and, at times, subtle suggestions about the equally relentless capacity of Indian communities adapting within the maelstrom of early America.

From New York Times