covetous
Example Sentences
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His covetous comments about Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, deepened concerns.
In their brief, intense interaction, Lockjaw develops a covetous one-sided relationship with his conqueror, as rooted in fetishistic lust as it is racism and control.
From Salon
For a very long time, other nations have been sizing up California with a covetous eye.
From Los Angeles Times
Consider Second Timothy, 3: 2: “For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.”
From Salon
Hammons seems like the victor in his attempt to satirize not so much the transaction of art for dollars but the covetous, oblivious, entitled nature of certain transactors.
From New York Times
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