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extreme greed for material wealth

She told of the cupidity that led to the company's collapse.

cupidity = extreme greed for material wealth

The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
...was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless.
Melville, Herman -- Moby Dick I-LXVII
And I could not imagine a human being so blinded by cupidity as to sell poison to such an atrocious creature.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Mirror of the Sea
"Aye, that I will," said the Sheriff, his cupidity casting his caution to the winds.
McSpadden, J. Walker -- Robin Hood
How about I use my insatiable cupidity to beat the crap out of you?
Homer Hickam -- October Sky

cupidity = extreme greed for material wealth

The curses of Heaven light on the cupidity that has destroyed such a race.
Cooper, James Fenimore -- The Pioneers
Through his self-love and cupidity I gained a hold upon my man.
de Balzac, Honore -- The Country Doctor
The cupidity of the little wretch was at last overcoming his abject cowardice.
Hornung, E. W. -- Dead Men Tell No Tales
So intolerable indeed is it regarded by some, that no cupidity could persuade them to moor alongside of it.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Keeping oneself occupied with mathematics, I say, is the best medicine for cupidity.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
But the cupidity of the Indian was soon gratified, and the different bodies again moved slowly onward.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
These people hated me with the hatred of cupidity and disappointment.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
The curses of Heaven light on the cupidity that has destroyed such a race.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
At one time he seems animated by the most selfish cupidity, at another by the most lively patriotism.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
Oh blind cupidity, both guilty and mad, that so spurs us in the brief life, and then, in the eternal, steeps us so ill!
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
Nevertheless, knowing the weakness of her husband, and more particularly his cupidity, she did not despair of bringing him round to her purpose.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
"I hope it may be so," replied Caderousse, his face flushed with cupidity.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
The struggle between thirst for vengeance and cupidity was severe but short.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
Obsequiousness, servility, cupidity roused by the prevailing smell of money.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman

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