Sentence example with the word 'covetous'

covetous

acquisitive, band, cluster, desirous, esurient, grasping, hoggish, keen, piggish, ravenous, voracious

Last update: November 26, 2018


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He has covetous plans to grab his father's wealth.   [noun]

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He will also be looking at your inventory with covetous eyes.   [adjective]

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Verse 8: But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire.   [adjective]

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Alone and friendless, in want and guilt, she remained behind with a hard-hearted and covetous hostess, who had brought her before the judge, and so into prison.   [adjective]

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Like his brother, he had a head too small for his body, but his well-formed features were animated by a pair of eyes sparkling with a keen, covetous expression.   [adjective]

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Ill-treating the boys, you covetous, avaricious, in-sa-ti-a-ble old fence.   [adjective]

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The Red King was false of heart, selfish, covetous, and mean.   [Please select]

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A man with broad estates, on which many cast covetous eyes, can scarce stand altogether aloof.   [Please select]

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