cupidity

Example Sentences

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A hundred years ago, he issued a prescient warning: if the majority unites today to oppress others, then "tomorrow the unity will break under the strain of cupidity or false religiosity".

From BBC

Preaching progressivism — deploring the cupidity of rich, denouncing tax cuts for them — is more exhilarating than practicing it.

From Washington Post

The commission explained that public health policies would “protect one set of human beings from being the victims of disease and death through the selfish cupidity of others.”

From New York Times

St. Augustine said that Christian Scriptures needed to be guided by the “principle of charity”: “Scripture teaches nothing but charity, nor condemns anything but cupidity.”

From New York Times

Some of them are accurately described as such, but all are so described because of prudence in the service of cupidity.

From Washington Post