CUPIDITY in a Sentence
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10 example sentences for CUPIDITY, such as:
1. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child.
2. These people hated me with the hatred of cupidity and disappointment.
3. Nor was the sword of death stayed until cupidity got the mastery of revenge.
4. I never saw such an expression of cupidity as the flickering lamp revealed in those two countenances.
5. The defeated people could not satisfy the cupidity of the conquerors, who demanded excessive tribute.
2. These people hated me with the hatred of cupidity and disappointment.
3. Nor was the sword of death stayed until cupidity got the mastery of revenge.
4. I never saw such an expression of cupidity as the flickering lamp revealed in those two countenances.
5. The defeated people could not satisfy the cupidity of the conquerors, who demanded excessive tribute.
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Meanings and Examples of CUPIDITY
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cupidity
n. greed; excessive desire, especially for wealth
Classic Sentence:
1 Now Jonah's Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless.
2 So intolerable indeed is it regarded by some, that no cupidity could persuade them to moor alongside of it.
3 But the cupidity of the Indian was soon gratified, and the different bodies again moved slowly onward.
4 Nor was the sword of death stayed until cupidity got the mastery of revenge.
5 "I hope it may be so," replied Caderousse, his face flushed with cupidity.
6 I never saw such an expression of cupidity as the flickering lamp revealed in those two countenances.
7 These people hated me with the hatred of cupidity and disappointment.
8 Nevertheless, knowing the weakness of her husband, and more particularly his cupidity, she did not despair of bringing him round to her purpose.
9 The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child.
Example Sentence:
1 The defeated people could not satisfy the cupidity of the conquerors, who demanded excessive tribute.