Crossword-Solution: COVETOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Covetous | v. t. | Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense. |
| Covetous | v. t. | Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense. |
We have 45 clues for the answer “COVETOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Longing to possess something that belongs to someone else | 1 answer |
| Esurient | 5 answers |
| grabby | 8 answers |
| Prehensile ___ | 8 answers |
| devouring | 11 answers |
| piggish | 11 answers |
| hoggish | 12 answers |
| possessive | 22 answers |
| envious | 22 answers |
| Itchy | 23 answers |
| raptorial | 27 answers |
| Plundering. | 27 answers |
| materialistic | 27 answers |
| hawklike | 28 answers |
| ravening | 28 answers |
| grabbing | 29 answers |
| ravaging | 29 answers |
| predacious | 29 answers |
| thieving | 30 answers |
| Avid | 30 answers |
| extortionate | 32 answers |
| Itching | 34 answers |
| desirous | 35 answers |
| predatory | 35 answers |
| Rapacious | 36 answers |
| insatiable | 36 answers |
| Jealous | 36 answers |
| Voracious | 40 answers |
| Acquisitive | 40 answers |
| penurious | 42 answers |
| Parsimonious | 42 answers |
| grudging | 44 answers |
| Gluttonous | 44 answers |
| greedy | 45 answers |
| grasping | 48 answers |
| Stingy | 51 answers |
| removing | 52 answers |
| starving | 58 answers |
| Famished | 58 answers |
| starved | 60 answers |
| miserly | 64 answers |
| Hungry | 68 answers |
| Craving | 69 answers |
| stealing | 72 answers |
| Yearning | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COVETOUS (5)
Too, Werper had his covetous soul set upon the pouch of gems, and so he was torn between the various emotions of avarice and fear.
Such an one is sure to be temperate and the reverse of covetous; for the motives which make another man desirous of having and spending, have no place in his character.
The avaricious eagerly grasp after it at the expense of others, though not of necessity with a design to save, since a man may be covetous and yet a spendthrift.
The greed of the gold possessed us; pity and love were forgot; Covetous visions obsessed us; brother with brother fought.
Ladbruk, whose husband had just come into the farm by way of inheritance, cast covetous eyes on this snug corner, and her fingers itched to make it bright and cosy with chintz curtains and bowls of flowers, and a shelf or two of old china.
Quotes with COVETOUS (3)
Money is representative, and follows the nature and fortunes of the owner... The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it represents. His bones ache with the days' work that earned it. He knows how much land it represents - how much rain, frost and sunshine. He knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing. Try to lift his dollar; you must lift all tha…
I am not covetous, but as ambitious as ever any of my sex was, is, or can be; which makes, that though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second, yet I endeavour to be Margaret the First; and although I have neither power, time, not occasion to conquer the world as Alexander and Caesar did; yet rather than not be mistress of one, since Fortune and Fates would give me none, I have made a world of my own; for which nobody, I hope, will blame me, since it is in everyone's power to do the like.
Everything that we see about us that we count is our possessions only comprises a loan from God, and it is when we lose sight of this all-pervading truth that we become greedy and covetous.