cupidity might get someone what they want in the short run but a bad reputation in the long run. From LearnThat.org.
But his cupidity was the stronger feeling, and Raleigh was sent with fourteen ships to the coasts of South America. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges] Reference
Men's cupidity is as insatiable as the grave. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
English borrowed this as "cupidity," which originally in the 15th century was synonymous with. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
This colorless face expressed patience, commercial shrewdness, and the sort of wily cupidity which is needful in business. From Wordnik.com. [At the Sign of the Cat & Racket] Reference
If Pat had been paying attention (and as Pat usually does, I can only count this as 'cupidity' on his part), he might also have mentioned that. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators] Reference
Nothing more was requisite to excite the cupidity of the. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
This was when the cupidity of the Dey had led him to accept. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
He must know how to stimulate cupidity and create confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
There was none of the cupidity of women for jewels in her look. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
It has been charged that commercial cupidity conceived the campaign. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
Ken Lay's failing was not simply his myopia or cupidity or incompetence. From Wordnik.com. [On Leadership: BP, Dell, Wall Street -- where have the corporate heroes gone?] Reference
It was livid with fury, and all wrinkled up with greed and baffled cupidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
Selfishness, cupidity and greed lead to tyranny, and tyranny finally destroys itself. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
So far as I could see, it was absurd that cupidity was inciting Langdon and Roebuck against me. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
What a feeble barrier this provision proved to the cupidity of the courtiers, long glutted with the spoils of. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Therefore the problem to be tackled is the ignorance, cupidity or stupidity of those who create such conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947] Reference
Canadian history, which has its picturesque aspect as well as its episodes of meanness, cupidity, and inhumanity. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
They seem on this occasion to have tempted the cupidity, by appealing to the generosity and humanity of the court. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
New York, Philadelphia, or Baltimore, expressly to suit the well-known cupidity of my warriors, kidnappers, and slave merchants. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The cupidity of a man had evidently led him to collect together these odds and ends, and try to turn them to profitable account. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Sarah was surprised to find how disappointed and hurt she felt at this cupidity on the part of Naomi, and she would not look at her at all. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
It would have been impossible for such an important object to have failed exciting the cupidity of a government constituted like that of the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
And with this confusion of frank cupidity and rapacious regard, the miser, with a supreme effort, pushed the stone impatiently toward the Sepoy. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
The boiling disgust of the Pakistani public with the incompetence, insouciance, and cupidity of their corrupt ruling class is little appreciated. From Wordnik.com. [Juan Cole: The Great Pakistani Deluge Never Happened] Reference
So, this worthless bag of cupidity was handed to us, the taxpayers, who bought it with a bailout of the banks and insurance companies that made the mess. From Wordnik.com. [Calvin F. Exoo: An Electorate Angry -- At Whom?] Reference
For the moment I thought it was the sight of the gewgaws this bale contained that had roused the cupidity of the barbarians; but now I believe otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
It is to insult our intelligence to deny that, comprehensively speaking, the basis of betting is cupidity, and cupidity of a particularly dangerous kind. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
The Delhis soon overtook their flying enemies, and riding amongst them, coolly shot down and sabred those whose splendid arms and dresses excited their cupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
On this afternoon, sweaty and a bit dyspeptic at the recent cupidity of 'friends,' I was taken by the striking, stand out graphics of Johannes Cabal-The Detective. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Jones: Johannes Cabal: The Detective] Reference
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