covetous

It’s gotten to the point where people in that world are covetous of an invitation from Michael Yon.

Consider Second Timothy, 3: 2: “For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.”

But it may have been Jemmy's spectacular meanness that inspired Dickens to immortalize him as the "covetous, old sinner" in A Christmas Carol, where Scrooge is visited by ghosts that show him his past, present and deathly future.

“I’ve asked Ted Sarandos why he’s so covetous of awards: ‘You guys are really, really spending,’” says O’Neil.

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.