covetousness
Example Sentences
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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.”
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
"Popularity should not necessitate vulgarity and hope should not entail covetousness," Xi admonished the writers, actors and others.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2015
The world had caught him; pleasure, covetousness, idleness, and finally also that vice that he had always despised and scorned as the most foolish—acquisitiveness.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
