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Covetous

Covetous | Covetousness

Covetous meaning

Distastefully desirous or keen, especially for something belonging to someone else; avaricious.

Example sentences (10)

As a Legendary Charter, Addington serves as a rival to Abbott, with enough money and resources to make even the most stalwart Abbott teacher covetous of its computer lab and smell-free hallways.

Better yet, this retool of Blyton, like Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone, can be seen as a morality tale showing what cursed things happen when covetous Britons nick stuff from other cultures.

Sir, you're being covetous now because you are looking at what other people have.

The play unveils marital, social and political cynicism, muddles and madness, and a society that is devoid of a political direction, commitment, honesty and happiness because of a covetous and corrupt leadership.

But she is not “nice” – she is envious and covetous, with a capacity for real malice.

Teresita speaks about the Marian revelations including China’s covetous glance on the Philippines.

Without that cultural fabric, they would have never consciously known if they felt envious or covetous, and there would be no guilt or shame associated with what is known as sinful behavior.

Bill is tasked with being partners with Slim, the psychopathic, "covetous, gratingly pansexual Irish bastard" who paid to him Bill and his wife killed, and it starts about how you'd expect.

France progressed to the final on Tuesday with a 1-0 victory against Belgium and will be facing Croatia for the covetous trophy.

Pan then grew angry with her, envious of her musical virtuosity and covetous of her virginity, which she would yield neither to men nor gods.