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Significados de covetous em inglês

Excessively desirous of money, wealth or possessions.

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Showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages.

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Uso de covetous em inglês
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The major powers are covetous of top jobs at the United Nations.
Reuters
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The covetous prodigal is of all others the worst man in society.
Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer
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It is a covetous grasping, a recognition that the other is indispensable.
The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book
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In all this there is nothing of a self-seeking or covetous kind.
An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetu...
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The duty not to contrive through a covetous heart to despoil another.
The 5000 year leap: a miracle that changed the world
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Crestfallen and out of temper, the covetous band returned to their homes.
Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
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Lincoln rebuked one of these covetous vexers by saying gravely to him:
The Lincoln Story Book / A Judicious Collection of the Best Stor...
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The Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things and derided Him.
The Gospel of Luke for Readers
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Who so is covetous let him know that his heart is poor.
In Luck at Last
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He was covetous, and never missed an opportunity of overreaching his neighbour.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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Any restraint on sinful impulse or covetous desire is laughed to scorn.
The Red Conspiracy
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At this, Macko being covetous for land and serfs, began to fancy:
The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance
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She was also by nature very covetous, and stuck at no wickedness.
Antiquities of the Jews
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To the end she is the same,-utterlyfalse, selfish, covetous, and successful.
Thackeray
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This bride was a canting hypocrite of sixty-three, covetous, and a termagant.
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2
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Thou knowest C- ,ofthe Convention,-hehas power, and he is covetous.
Zanoni
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