| Happily our cupidity was never tested by finding something as cherishable as a Neolithic polished axe head. |
| Jefferson regarded Britain as facinorous and permeated by cupidity and commercialism. |
| Like an alternating current, the atmosphere of the reef flickers between urgent desire and cold, murderous cupidity. |
| He does not hide his cupidity, but colleagues resent more the way he flaunts his brainpower. |
| Some of them are natural, the results of vagaries of climate, but others, the majority, are caused by human frailty and cupidity. |
| They are convinced that cupidity, that the desire for wealth, that the worldliness seen in avarice is the ultimate cause for all of the social ills that they see around them. |
