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Six example sentences with cupidity, each labelled with its topic.
The fund's collapse was a study in cupidity, with managers doubling their positions after the warning to chase one more bonus each.
Finance
Cupidity emptied the mission stores within a year, as officers sold the seed grain and pocketed the coin before winter.
History
Dickens gives the miser one long scene of pure cupidity, counting sovereigns while his clerk shivers over an unlit grate.
Literature
The senator's cupidity was undone by his own diary, which recorded every gift and its giver.
Politics
The film treats the gold rush as a study in cupidity, with partners turning on each other over a single nugget.
Movies
Aquinas ranked cupidity among the roots of wrongdoing, since love of money crowds out every other love.
Philosophy
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