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Recent Examples of cupidity Tablets: Secrets of the Clay by Dunya Mikhail Sue Halpern For the Love of Money Sarah Wynn-Williams’s damning memoir of working at Facebook exposes the predatory cupidity of the company’s executives. Rachel Nolan, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2025 Pilgrimage, though couched in spiritual aims, often bordered on sheer cupidity. Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023 To cupidity, and beyond! Kyle Smith, WSJ, 16 June 2022 Céline often accused Rosembly of having stolen the manuscripts from his apartment in the chaos of the war’s end; certainly, Rosembly was imprisoned for looting various collaborators’ apartments in Montmartre, where Céline used to live, though whether out of revenge or cupidity is also unclear. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 June 2022 The meaning of cupidity: a strong desire for wealth. Dallas News, 1 June 2022 Call the content misdemeanor populism, representing in each instance the recourse of someone motivated by need or only petty cupidity. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022 In Williams’s telling, the capitalists turned against slavery out of cupidity rather than humanity. James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021 What keeps us from tuning out is the infectious energy of an ensemble that delights in its characters’ displays of cupidity and stupidity, and the storybook ingenuity of the physical production. Ben Brantley, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cupidity
greed
Noun
  • Critics argue the murders were calculated acts of greed, rather than acts of desperation by abuse victims.
    Hanna Park, CNN Money, 14 May 2025
  • Prosecutors, however, argued that the brothers were motivated by greed and money — their father's estate was worth nearly $15 million at the time of his death.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 14 May 2025

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“Cupidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cupidity. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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