How To Use Cupidity In A Sentence
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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.
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Whilst the greatest terror possesses the large capitalist, cupidity inspires the other; and the two elements, instead of checking one another, co-exist together.
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Cupidity and our ability to delude ourselves are constant.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Fannie Meltdown?
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Like an alternating current, the atmosphere of the reef flickers between urgent desire and cold, murderous cupidity.
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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
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He does not hide his cupidity, but colleagues resent more the way he flaunts his brainpower.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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)
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The artist would, however, do well to obtain, all the colors mentioned in the last chapter of this work, and be sure to get the very best, as there are various qualities of the same color, particularly carmine, which is very expensive, and the cupidity of some may induce them to sell a poor article for the sake of larger profits.
History and Practice of the Art of Photography
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Condemned to celibacy because married servants were expensive and inconvenient, their proverbial cupidity arose as often as not from saving to buy themselves out of service and into family life.
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When the object is absent, or, like God, not as present as it may become, the tending, advancing, aspiring movement is called a love of desire, that is, the cupidity of what we have not but hope to have.
Treatise on the Love of God
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Unquestioningly, the tree grants their desire, but also gifts them cupidity, insomnia, anxiety and frustration.
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It is a plan, he maintains, not of defence as against unjust and exacting landlords, but of offence against "landlordism," not really promoted, as it appears to be, in the interest of the tenants to whose cupidity it appeals, but worked from
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)
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As is usual in hasty judgments, the many have been stigmatized with the vices of the few: the misconduct of reckless servants has been held forth as bespeaking the habits of the whole class, and the misdealing cupidity of a few purveyors of fashionable luxuries has been set down as the almost uniform rule of conduct of the worthiest classes in the empire.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832
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-- The peripatetic Alexander of Aphrodisias who fought fatalism in his [Greek: Peri heimarmenês], at the beginning of the third century, and who violently attacked the charlatanism and cupidity of the astrologers in another book (_De anima mantissa_, p. 180, 14, Bruns), formulated the contradiction in the popular beliefs of his time (_ibid. _, p. 182, 18):
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
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The love of God for his own sake which is necessary for eternal life belongs exclusively to the supreme degree of the superior reason, but the Saint teaches (as Bossuet has clearly shown against Fénélon) that there is a reasonable, high love of cupidity, that is, a love of God as good to us, even in the highest degree and supreme point of the spirit.
Treatise on the Love of God
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An institutionalised mindset, hallowed by time, buttressed by vested interests whose established wealth it preserves, and reinforced at lesser levels by universal cupidity?
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There is no doubt who are the heroes of this narrative: the dauntless developers who battle the cupidity and ignorance of the managers.
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And this refusal of the author to charge the people with their own stupidity and cupidity, this refusal of the people to own up and take responsibility, is symptomatic.
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I do not come here to ask your favors, such as cupidity would covet, or even such as would relieve indigence -- Marat's widow needs no more than a tomb.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
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They are convinced that cupidity, that the desire for wealth, that the worldliness seen in avarice is the ultimate cause for all of the social ills that they see around them.
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Jefferson regarded Britain as facinorous and permeated by cupidity and commercialism.
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Some of them are natural, the results of vagaries of climate, but others, the majority, are caused by human frailty and cupidity.
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In reality, the prospect is implausible: reduce a man's propensity to lust and he will compensate with an increased aggression or cupidity.
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Condemned to celibacy because married servants were expensive and inconvenient, their proverbial cupidity arose as often as not from saving to buy themselves out of service and into family life.
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Scenarios lampooning cupidity and gluttony appear on the inside of a covered glass dish, or among the decorations of teapots and vases, or the contents of a serving dish, blurring the line of demarcation that separates faith and folly.
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I have never stopped being angry at hypocrisy and hate and stupidity and cupidity, either.
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Consumer cupidity continues to grow across the UK, but in Scotland the year-on-year growth rate subsided last month from 10.2% to 4.2%.
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This colorless face expressed patience, commercial shrewdness, and the sort of wily cupidity which is needful in business.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
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Happily our cupidity was never tested by finding something as cherishable as a Neolithic polished axe head.
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They ask for wealth, power, fame, sexual pleasure - and they get these, but also cupidity, insomnia, anxiety, and frustration/disease.
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But his cupidity was the stronger feeling, and Raleigh was sent with fourteen ships to the coasts of South America.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
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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.
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It was then that Mr. Sheeny detailed to me the particulars to which I have briefly adverted; and, informing me at the same time that he had a family in England who would feel obliged to me for his release, and that his most intimate friend the English ambassador would move heaven and earth to revenge his fall, he directed my attention to a portmanteau passably well filled, which he hoped would satisfy the cupidity of my troops.
Burlesques
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That autumn, however, the collapse of the general farm reform combined with accusations of cupidity from his enemies not only ended his dominance but almost drove him from office.
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This is perhaps the primary reason that capitalism is _inherently_ an immoral system; not simply because it contributes to inequality and immiseration (which it does) but because in its own way, it aggravates vices such as cupidity, greed, and the libido dominandi.
Matthew Yglesias » Culture and Size and Scope of Government
