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.

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 Meanings and Examples of CUPIDITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
2  So intolerable indeed is it regarded by some, that no cupidity could persuade them to moor alongside of it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
3  But the cupidity of the Indian was soon gratified, and the different bodies again moved slowly onward.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
4  Nor was the sword of death stayed until cupidity got the mastery of revenge.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
5  "I hope it may be so," replied Caderousse, his face flushed with cupidity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
6  I never saw such an expression of cupidity as the flickering lamp revealed in those two countenances.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
7  These people hated me with the hatred of cupidity and disappointment.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
8  Nevertheless, knowing the weakness of her husband, and more particularly his cupidity, she did not despair of bringing him round to her purpose.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME
9  The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER
Example Sentence:
1  The defeated people could not satisfy the cupidity of the conquerors, who demanded excessive tribute.