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covetousness

[ kuhv-i-tuhs-nis ]

noun

  1. eager or excessive desire, especially for wealth or possessions:

    Social media so often encourages us to compare ourselves to others, inspiring covetousness and insecurity.



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Other 51Թ Forms

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Russia's covetousness toward Ukraine differs somewhat from its other colonization activities, but comes from the same underlying desire to subjugate.

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“Certainly. Go, dear, I forgot that you have any home but this,” and Mrs. March pressed the white hand that wore the wedding ring, as if asking pardon for her maternal covetousness.

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One year I cheated by pooling my group with my younger sister’s, guilty of the sin of covetousness.

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The covetousness is conspicuous in the new thriller “Envy: A Seven Deadly Sins Story.”

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau denounced fashion as a threat to moral society — an incitement to desire and covetousness, writing that finery is a “stranger to virtue.”

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