How to Use "cupidity" with Example Sentences

1. The contrast then is between cupidity and stupidity .

2. And I could not imagine a human being so blinded by cupidity as to sell poison to such an atrocious creature .

3. Those who emphasise cupidity point to the incentives for the financial sector to take undue risk .

4. Whether the fault lay more in cupidity than stupidity , or the other way round , an obvious conclusion is that the failure was one of regulation .

5. It 's not even the cupidity and stupidity of many of our elected representatives -- although , god knows , as I showed in this column , that sure didn 't help .