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 Translation for 'cupidity' from English to Russian
NOUN   cupidity | -
SYNO avarice | avariciousness | covetousness | ...
алчность {ж}cupidity
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Translation for 'cupidity' from English to Russian

cupidity
алчность {ж}
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Usage Examples English
  • Tang seems compelled to deal with the base elements in man - envy, venality, and cupidity.
  • Reversed, the card represents desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy and illusion.
  • Leyva de la Cerda had a reputation for arrogance, rudeness and unlimited cupidity, as did members of his family.
  • This tradition is curiously coincident with the German superstition of treasure buried within the Hartz mountains, guarded, and ever disappointing the cupidity of those who would discover and possess themselves of it.
  • Rather than focusing on political conflict, Hofstadter proposes that a common ideology of "self-help, free enterprise, competition, and beneficent cupidity" has guided the United States since its inception.

  • Fairies in Everworld, also called "leprechauns", are known for their cupidity---Fairy Land, which is very pristine and clean compared to other parts of Everworld, serves as a kind of economic center for the entire world.
  • The child's face clearly shows the struggle between cupidity and the claims of hospitality that is raging within him.
  • In speeches to Negroes you must remember that they can only be influenced by their fears, superstitions and cupidity.
  • For Eberhard II of Württemberg, the privileged imperial cities were impediments to the extension of the power and influence of Württemberg, and so he had good reason of his own to align his interests with the emperor’s own cupidity, as he enviously watched the high revenues enjoyed by the cities from their trading in cloth and salt.
  • Our wealth is limited but their cupidity is infinite.

  • The OED definition of "cupidity" is "Ardent desire, inordinate longing or lust; covetousness", placing the weight firmly on the lecherous side of the reference of this word, which came into English from Latin, and perhaps through French.
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