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What does covetous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (especially money); avaricious.
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Christensen thinks that this new approach to power won't go out of style, that the negative always breeds covetous attention.
An enterprising news director covetous of higher ratings might well think about slanting his news to the right.
In my books there are healthy, happy people, and craven, covetous, miserable people.
Islanders do not openly admire the possessions of others because it suggests that one is envious and covetous.
It may have been borne out of provincial jealousy and a covetous desire, but the attack was startling in its intensity.
The truth is that because of the unbiased media today, these covetous politicians have been exposed.

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