Cupidity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CUPIDITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• avarice, greed
• greed for money or possessions
• A passionate desire; love.
• Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness
• extreme greed for material wealth
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• greed; lust

Words related to CUPIDITY

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How to use CUPIDITY in a sentence

• The queen of the world, for five days and nights, was exposed to the lust and cupidity of despised barbarians.
• He does not want to tempt the cupidity of Europeans, by showing them the resources of the empire.
• The cupidity of this prince always caused him to incline towards those who promised him most.
• These can not successfully contend against the cupidity of the seller and the overpowering appetite of the buyer.
• The banks by this means save themselves, and the mischievous consequences of their imprudence or cupidity are visited upon the public.
• Then, the governor apprehended the cupidity and ambition of the old-established governments, when it should be known that territory was to be acquired.
• And now the sacred cupidity of the reformer did for an instant leap up within her.
• The problem on the North and South we brought on ourselves, as results on the one hand of our neglect and injustice, and on the other of our cupidity and cruelty.
• Even the brass buttons of the infidels excited their cupidity.
• But now they excited the cupidity of the foreign invaders of Egypt, and were carried away to distant lands as trophies of their victories.
• She stirs the avarice and cupidity of others, that they may do the work she wishes done.
• Someone suggested that the cupidity of the Grand Vizier, Balthazi, was the vulnerable spot.
• Nothing more was needful to rouse the cupidity of the commandant.
• The furs of that country have excited the cupidity of the Russians, as the Mexican gold mines did that of the Spaniards.
• Former kings had invested the Bohemian nobles with possessions which he, moved by cupidity, determined to have back.
• This aroused my suspicion, for I knew the cupidity of savages, and how they always try to take all and give nothing in return.
• I am certain of this, for I know that, in spite of your other weaknesses, that cupidity and greed have no place in your mental make-up.
• This definition at once excludes all cases of stealing from cupidity, or from development of a habit.
• Their arrogance led them to claim the chief merit of the victory of Cynoscephalae, and their cupidity desired a larger share in the spoils of the war.
• Henceforth the efforts of the Turks were confined to opposing the storm which their misguided cupidity had raised up against them.
• I was confident that if he had actually taken the emeralds it was not at all from motives of cupidity.
• He was possessed with the demon of cupidity, and a quarrel arose between him and his men concerning the division of the spoil.
• And then she said she thought the warrant had been taken, not from cupidity, but from a desire to serve Katy.
• It will be, so far as its effects reach, an auxiliary to patriotism and public virtue, in their warfare against selfishness and cupidity.
• But all the hundred faces of royalty have the same signs, all of them, and are distinctly repeated through their smiles of cupidity, rapacity, ferocity.
• The laws by which they are exposed to the cupidity of their white neighbors, are extremely defective, and require a thorough reform.
• If prescription be once shaken, no species of property is secure, when it once becomes an object large enough to tempt the cupidity of indigent power.
• At the same time they endeavored to disarm the cupidity of the foe by the most magnificent presents.

Similar words containing CUPID without suffix ity

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