Europe’s past keeps sending awful bonbons to its present. In recent months, we have learned that Swiss banks piled up millions of dollars in assets stolen from Jewish victims of the Nazis. … No one would argue that German evil absolves Swiss cupidity or French collaboration. (John Marks, Swiss Cupidity, But German Evil, U.S. News & World Report, 12/15/1997.)
This word, when used in the above sense can also be a synonym for avarice, covetousness, desire and lust.
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