cupidity

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The dribbling of classic works into the public domain every year on Jan. 1 may be gratifying, but it also serves to underscore the stupidity and cupidity of our convoluted copyright system.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2022

“Our enemies are not man,” he wrote Dr. King in 1966, but “intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred and discrimination which lie within the heart of man.”

From New York Times • May 16, 2019

Their cupidity quickly becomes an existential threat to all of the people and things that define the city, condemning them to a subterranean life at the bottom of the void.

From The Verge • Sep. 1, 2018

It is a tale of heroic cupidity on a scale that made the very best and the very brightest look like the very, very foolish.

From Washington Post • Jun. 25, 2018

The coins in his hand, he stared at her, helpless before his own cupidity.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks