Definition of COVETING

Other Words from covet

covetable \ ˈkə-və-tə-bəl

\ adjective

coveter \ ˈkə-və-tər

\ noun

covetingly \ ˈkə-və-tiŋ-lē

\ adverb

Choose the Right Synonym for covet

desire, wish, want, crave, covet mean to have a longing for. desire stresses the strength of feeling and often implies strong intention or aim. desires to start a new life wish sometimes implies a general or transient longing especially for the unattainable. wishes for permanent world peace want specifically suggests a felt need or lack. wants to have a family crave stresses the force of physical appetite or emotional need. craves sweets covet implies strong envious desire. covets his rise to fame

Examples of covet in a Sentence

The oldest of the students, she had become a confidante of Fern's and she alone was allowed to call her by her first name. It was not a privilege the others coveted. — Edward P. Jones, The Known World, 2003 The only Commandment I'd breached, besides killing that bird with my air rifle, was that I had coveted Bobby Entrekin's electric train. It blew real smoke. Mine didn't. — Lewis Grizzard, Reader's Digest, January 1992 He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. — Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, 1876 His religion warns against coveting material goods. I've been coveting that sleek sports car in the showroom for some time now.

Recent Examples on the Web After a hard pandemic year, who doesn’t covet a trophy bottle to toast the start of the post-pandemic era? — Elva Ramirez, Forbes, "There’s A Lottery To Win Pappy Van Winkle 2020 - But There’s A Catch," 28 Apr. 2021 Any team who utilizes a dime safety in their defense could covet him. — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, "2021 NFL Draft: Top Safeties," 28 Apr. 2021 Apple’s latest M1 iMacs may include powerful new M1 Arm chips that some in the Windows world may covet. — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, "Inexplicably, Apple's new M1 iMac doesn't include face logins," 20 Apr. 2021 Forever, the Knicks formula has been to desperately covet the best players in the game, get ignored by them in their free agency prime, and then acquire them—late in their careers, often after injury. — Jason Gay, WSJ, "The New York Knicks Are Pretty Good. This Is Huge News.," 19 Apr. 2021 For Android fans who covet a high-end phone, the Samsung Galaxy S21 can't be beaten. — Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com, "Tablet vs. phone: which is right for you?," 2 Mar. 2021 Though Microsoft won't hold any user data directly as part of the decentralized identity scheme, the approach would potentially make Microsoft accounts even more valuable to attackers, who already covet them. — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, "Microsoft's Dream of Decentralized IDs Enters the Real World," 2 Mar. 2021 Fans still covet a No. 1 wide receiver and a high-end pass rusher, but those are among the most expensive luxuries on the market. — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, "Ravens offseason roundtable: Answering big questions about Orlando Brown Jr., free agency, the draft and more," 22 Feb. 2021 No longer in need of a big family hauler, folks like us still covet the room of a big SUV but don’t want to show up at the dinner party driving the same ol’ Ford Explorer/Chevy Traverse/Telluride family bus. — Tribune News Service, cleveland, "Sorento SUV is luxe ute in Kia clothing," 16 Jan. 2021

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