reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
同义词:avaricegreedrapacityavaritia
covetousness例句
COVETOUSNESS The sin of covetousness Metamorphoses of Covetousness COVETOUSNESS AND DESIRE: THE TENTH COMMANDMENT IN AFRICA Of"Epistemic Covetousness"in Knowledge Economies [1] Divine possession: Metaphysical covetousness in Decalogue Nine On Taiwan's Geo-strategy from the Covetousness of America and Japan Covetousness, ‘Unkyndenesse’, and the ‘Blered’ Eye in Piers Plowman and ‘The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale’ Phenomenological Distinctions: Two Types of Envy and Their Difference from Covetousness Stages in the structuring of a desert: The Algerian Sahara between economic covetousness, political projects and land planning