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covetous
adjective
(cov-et-ous)
showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
Synonyms:
envious
,
jealous
,
Examples:
He was never covetous before he met her.
Jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions.
covetous
adjective
(cov-et-ous)
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
Synonyms:
avaricious
,
grabby
,
grasping
,
greedy
,
prehensile
,
Examples:
Casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields.
Words Related to
covetous
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avaricious
,
envious
,
greedy
,
jealous
,
acquisitive
,
prehensile
,
grabby
,
desirous
,
grasping
,
rapacious
,
lustful
,
gluttonous
,
ravenous
,
selfish
,
haughty
,
venal
,
egotistic
,
vengeful
,
lecherous
,
insatiable
,
impious
,
fleshly
,
resentful
,
conceited
,
insolent
,
licentious
,
arrogant
,
unthankful
,
ravening
,
closehanded
,
acquiescent
,
wrathful
,
domineering
,
disdainful
,
vainglorious
,
egocentric
,
indolent
,
smug
,
beggarly
,
worldly
,
conscienceless
,
highborn
,
malevolent
,
coldhearted
,
doltish
,
larcenous
,
maleficent
,
dwarfish
,
lordly
,
overgreedy
,
unseeing
,
tyrannical
,
predatory
,
edacious
,
despotic
,
loathsome
,
faithless
,
brusk
,
overweening
,
kingly
,
proprietorial
,
bloodthirsty
,
unloving
,
wolfish
,
imperialistic
,
supercilious
,
mephistophelian
,
unwomanly
,
discontented
,
shiftless
,
moneyed
,
unappreciative
,
lumpen
,
solipsistic
,
amoral
,
avidious
,
feckless
,
incommunicative
,
uncomprehending
,
parasitical
,
hubristic
,
truculent
,
importunate
,
comely
,
delusive
,
lickerous
,
vampiric
,
incorrigibly
,
priapic
,
succubi
,
virtuous
,
exalted
,
myopic
,
sybaritic
,
thieving
,
obsequious
,
priggish
,
unslaked
,
narcissistic
,
meek
,
covetous
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