covetousness
Example Sentences
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The covetousness is conspicuous in the new thriller “Envy: A Seven Deadly Sins Story.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2021
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.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2020
It dips into rich territory by examining the covetousness social media inspires, not just for things, but for attention.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2017
And giving in to envy and covetousness is not the path to safety, security and happiness.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2015
But before we started I looked with a certain longing through the glass door at a Luigi Franchi 12-gauge double with a Purdy lock so beautiful that I was filled with covetousness.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
