cupidity

How To Use cupidity In A Sentence

• The other is the astonishing and brutal cupidity of those in power who will almost certainly steal and divert the funds and the contributions in kind that are pouring in from all over the world.
• Whilst the greatest terror possesses the large capitalist, cupidity inspires the other; and the two elements, instead of checking one another, co-exist together.
• Cupidity and our ability to delude ourselves are constant. The Volokh Conspiracy » Fannie Meltdown?
• Like an alternating current, the atmosphere of the reef flickers between urgent desire and cold, murderous cupidity.
• To suggest, as your comment seems to, that ALL opposition to the stimulus bill must be based upon Republican cupidity is simply silly but typical of the hysteria being used to sell this ill considered and destructive indulgence. zyxw Says: Matthew Yglesias » Nelson: Hair-Splitting in Defense of Bad Policy is No Vice
• He does not hide his cupidity, but colleagues resent more the way he flaunts his brainpower.
• The current climate is tailor-made for a populist politician of the left to exploit, by railing against the extravagance, cupidity and even criminality of the money men.
• Unlike those cynics whose mordant view of human nature seeps into and darkens their personality, he visibly brightened as he related episodes of human cupidity and self-inflicted prisoners' dilemmas.
• The immense quantities of wild fowl and animal and bird life along the shores astonished them; but what most aroused their cupidity was the enormous supply of furs, especially beaver and otter, that could be obtained from the Indians. The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware
• a gilt head in his hand, and a bundle in a handkerchief over his shoulder, exciting the cupidity of every Irish raparee who passes him, by his resemblance to a Jew pedlar who has sent forward his pack -- Linton, tired of trailing his long legs, exalted in state upon an Irish garron, without stirrups, and a halter on its head, tempting every one to ask -- Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)