Sample Sentences forcupidity (auto-selected)
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She told of the cupidity that led to the company's collapse.cupidity = extreme greed
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And he thought: I must catch his mind as well as his cupidity.† (source)
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How about I use my insatiable cupidity to beat the crap out of you?† (source)
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She and the musicians were beginning to enjoy each other and to egg each other on as they bounced through this ballad of cupidity, treachery, and death; and Ida had created in the room a new atmosphere and a new excitement.† (source)
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These people hated me with the hatred of cupidity and disappointment.† (source)
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"I hope it may be so," replied Caderousse, his face flushed with cupidity.† (source)
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So intolerable indeed is it regarded by some, that no cupidity could persuade them to moor alongside of it.† (source)
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Thus, whereas plague by its impartial ministrations should have promoted equality among our townsfolk, it now had the opposite effect and, thanks to the habitual conflict of cupidities, exacerbated the sense of injustice rankling in men's hearts.† (source)
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I observed with disillusioned clarity the despicable nonentity of the street; its porches; its window curtains; the drab clothes, the cupidity and complacency of shopping women; and old men taking the air in comforters; the caution of people crossing; the universal determination to go on living, when really, fools and gulls that you are, I said, any slate may fly from a roof, any car may swerve, for there is neither rhyme nor reason when a drunk man staggers about with a club in his hand—that is all.† (source)
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Both are alike forced to borrow motives for the more strenuous actions of their personages from the common stockpot of melodramatic plots; so that Hamlet has to be stimulated by the prejudices of a policeman and Macbeth by the cupidities of a bushranger.† (source)
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Keeping oneself occupied with mathematics, I say, is the best medicine for cupidity.† (source)
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Nor was the sword of death stayed until cupidity got the mastery of revenge.† (source)
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Dorothea left Ladislaw's two letters unread on her husband's writing-table and went to her own place, the scorn and indignation within her rejecting the reading of these letters, just as we hurl away any trash towards which we seem to have been suspected of mean cupidity.† (source)
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I learned afterwards that my dress, and that of Mrs. Bruce's children, had been described to him by some of the Northern tools, which slaveholders employ for their base purposes, and then indulge in sneers at their cupidity and mean servility.† (source)
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Obsequiousness, servility, cupidity roused by the prevailing smell of money.† (source)
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American legislators are more apt to give men credit for intelligence than for honesty, and they rely not a little on personal cupidity for the execution of the laws.† (source)
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