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/kˈʌvətəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
he was never covetous before he met her
envious of their art collection
jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions -
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
they are avaricious and will do anything for money
grasping commercialism
a grasping old miser
greedy for money and power
casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields
grew richer and greedier
prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees
How To Use covetous In A Sentence
- It is true: but liberality baulkes, and feares covetousnesse and niggardize, more a great deale then prodigallity; so does zeale lukewarmnes and coldnesse, more then too much heate and forwardnesse; the defect is more opposite and dangerous to some vertues, then the excesse. A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
- Second thing to be considered in it, to wit, the thing we are dehorted from, which is covetousness. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
- It's all a matter of perspective and intent, something Cave covetously explores across the two discs.
- She _smelt_, so to say, that there was something underneath the offer which was not to her advantage; but then the thought of thirty crowns a month, of all those coins chinking in her apron, falling to her, as it were, from the skies, without her doing anything for it, filled her with covetousness. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories
- Life is just one big vain, greedy, acquisitive, covetous, furious orgy - and then you die.
- I may be boring, but they were eyeing my lunch covetously at the bus stop.
- Therefore there was great enmity between this covetous Jew and the generous merchant Antonio.
- casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields
- BeefBar is situated overlooking the harbour in the Fontveille quarter, so you enjoy your meal while gazing covetously at the superyachts moored there. Review - BeefBar, Monaco 17 October 2008
- It was the latter's reputation of which Silvers was bound to be especially covetous.
