Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: cupidity
IPA transcription: [kjup'ɪdɪti]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: avarice, avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity
    Meaning: extreme greed for material wealth
Usage examples
  • His inherited cupidity was aroused.
  • The eyes of the mendicant dashed with cupidity, but he quickly suppressed his emotion.
  • He had neither property, family, nor personality; he was defenceless against his master's cruelty, folly, or cupidity.
  • The Americans frequently term what we should call cupidity a laudable industry; and they blame as faint-heartedness what we consider to be the virtue of moderate desires.
  • The noise rivalled that of a fair; there was no quiet anywhere, save in the farthest recess of each stall, where the lady in supreme charge of it, like a spider in the middle of its web, watched customers and cash-box with equal cupidity.
  • He alone knew the amount of the large fortune of his sometime client, and his fervor was inevitably increased by the cupidity of greed, and by the consciousness that he wielded an enormous power, the power of life and death in the district.