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covetousness
/ˈkʌvətəsnəs/
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What does covetousness mean?
noun
- Immoderate desire for the possession of something, especially for wealth.
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Caesar afterward made use of this action also, to reproach him with covetousness, and a mercenary design in his marriage.
People talk about Christian liberty and then go and cater to the desires of covetousness, pleasure, pride, envy, and other vices.
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He looked astonished at the expression my face assumed during a brief second: it was not horror, it was covetousness.
I leave anyone to imagine the covetousness of the Canadian at the sight of this savoury game, and whether he did not regret having no gun.
He who has his thoughts upon taking, never thinks of what he has taken; covetousness has nothing so properly and so much its own as ingratitude.