cupidity
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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
“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
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
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