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  • A man of gargantuan appetites, explosive rages and piercing perceptions, he might have ended poorly had he not had the great good fortune to marry a brilliant Frenchwoman who had one of the most cupidinous natures in history.

    Poland Michener, James 1983

  • The second was this: a profound distrust of the new movement, a reaction against it, a feeling that moral anarchy was too profitable to the rich and the cupidinous, began at first in a dull, later in an angry way, to stir the masses of the populace throughout _all_ Christendom.

    Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • And his gifts were treated tepidly, though with cupidinous eyes.

    The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908

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