English to Samoan Meaning of cupidity - cupidity


Cupidity :
cupidity

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cupidity
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Definitions of cupidity in English
Noun(1) extreme greed for material wealth
Examples of cupidity in English
(1) I have never stopped being angry at hypocrisy and hate and stupidity and cupidity , either.(2) Condemned to celibacy because married servants were expensive and inconvenient, their proverbial cupidity arose as often as not from saving to buy themselves out of service and into family life.(3) An institutionalised mindset, hallowed by time, buttressed by vested interests whose established wealth it preserves, and reinforced at lesser levels by universal cupidity ?(4) The current climate is tailor-made for a populist politician of the left to exploit, by railing against the extravagance, cupidity and even criminality of the money men.(5) The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.(6) Like an alternating current, the atmosphere of the reef flickers between urgent desire and cold, murderous cupidity .(7) Happily our cupidity was never tested by finding something as cherishable as a Neolithic polished axe head.(8) In reality, the prospect is implausible: reduce a man's propensity to lust and he will compensate with an increased aggression or cupidity .(9) Consumer cupidity continues to grow across the UK, but in Scotland the year-on-year growth rate subsided last month from 10.2% to 4.2%.(10) That autumn, however, the collapse of the general farm reform combined with accusations of cupidity from his enemies not only ended his dominance but almost drove him from office.(11) new wealth, however tainted by cupidity and egoism, tends to be favourable for the arts(12) Scenarios lampooning cupidity and gluttony appear on the inside of a covered glass dish, or among the decorations of teapots and vases, or the contents of a serving dish, blurring the line of demarcation that separates faith and folly.(13) Some of them are natural, the results of vagaries of climate, but others, the majority, are caused by human frailty and cupidity .(14) Unlike those cynics whose mordant view of human nature seeps into and darkens their personality, he visibly brightened as he related episodes of human cupidity and self-inflicted prisoners' dilemmas.(15) 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.(16) And this refusal of the author to charge the people with their own stupidity and cupidity , this refusal of the people to own up and take responsibility, is symptomatic.
(1) Cupid ::
Cupid
Synonyms
Noun
1. greed ::
matapeʻapeʻa
2. avarice ::
avarice
6. rapacity ::
rapacity
7. materialism ::
matapeʻapeʻa
9. money-grubbing ::
tupe-grubbing
Different Forms
cupidity
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