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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
- 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
cupidity = extreme greed for material wealth