A man actuated by unworthy desired.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object), : actuated by selfish motives. ,to actuate a machine.    From Dictionary.com. 

The apparatus by which purposive movements are actuated is the nervous system, and also, the muscles into which the nerve fibre is so intimately interlaced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Criminal Anthropology from a Canadian View-Point] Reference

Some of these are really a form of slot machine with coin actuated mechanisms while others are motor driven, attracting attention as moving displays always do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference

Valves can be closed or "actuated" either manually or by hydraulics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Philip Neches: Gulf Oil Spill: Meet the Blow Out Preventer] Reference

A kind of actuated mirror would scan the beams from a red, a green, and a blue laser to generate an image.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

But why disguise the real motive that actuated me?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

In this Mme. Morrel was not actuated by curiosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference

Doubtless their founders were actuated by a belief that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

Though so different, they were actuated by the same spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

M. Dantès is actuated solely by the wish to lay the homage of a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference

An electronically actuated all-wheel-drive system will be optional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suzuki unveils Kizashi midsized sedan] Reference

Two rotary furnaces actuated by this agent have been in operation for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference

She seems to have been actuated every day by the one desire, to do her duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference

His unkind manner, as well as the false charges, showed that he was actuated by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference

Bankers are nearly always actuated by greed, and so are many ordinary people too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who’s to Blame: Washington or Wall Street?] Reference

The convention will be largely chiefly actuated and governed by the stability idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference

He was mainly actuated, however, to go through the ordeal in the interests of science.    From Wordnik.com.  [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference

Apparently he was actuated with a desire to destroy everything which stood in his path.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

He thinks the tragedist might better have let Felix be actuated by zeal for the pagan gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

It was clear to my mind from the first that some common purpose actuated both Weltz and Rizzi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

But the same material was there -- the same elements of character, actuated by the same spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference

He, without knowing the motives which actuated his wife, guessed that something had displeased her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

He went towards her, actuated by some strange fascination, and spoke to her, but no voice came back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

The first is, What exactly is Sinn Fein? and secondly, How far was the rising actuated by German gold?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics] Reference

I was actuated by a desire to obtain vengeance upon old Count Massetti for a wrong he did me in the past!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference

Such individuals, in enlisting in the army of charlatans, were not usually actuated by philanthropic motives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

But in so doing, they are actuated by various motives and perhaps they all could not justly be labelled sinister.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

Certainly he must have been actuated by principle alone; for he had everything to gain by remaining on the Northern side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

Yet he is actuated by a certain awe of some constellations, as of everything that indicates a spiritual connection of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

I suppose these so-called Socialists are actuated by a mad desire to be up to date, to keep up with the intellectual band-wagon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference

In truth, he had no conception of the value of discipline in war, believing that all must be actuated by his own devotion to duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

This would have been of little consequence, had not an American sailor lad, actuated either by mischief or folly, whispered to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference

I will not pretend to question the motive which actuated Sherman in taking an officer from another army to supersede General Logan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Soon after that important event several leading men of the nation, actuated by a pious and laudable zeal for the propagation of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference

We did so from that hour, the doctor from high motives of philosophy and philanthropy, while I was actuated by more selfish reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference

We simply wish to exhibit the true spirit by which the Romanists are actuated in their dealings with those over whom they have power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference

I strongly suspect, my dear, that you have been actuated by a feeling of false pride, in the position you have taken as to this matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Woman] Reference

The motives by which Handsomelake claimed to be actuated were entirely of a religious and benevolent character, and in pursuance of the injunctions of his spiritual guides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference