covetousness - significado y definición. Qué es covetousness
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Qué (quién) es covetousness - definición


covetousness         
  • Frontispiece to a 1620 printing of Doctor Faustus showing Faustus conjuring Mephistophilis.
  • Jacques Callot, ''Greed'', probably after 1621
  • ''The Father and Mother'' by [[Boardman Robinson]] depicting War as the offspring of Greed and Pride
INSATIABLE LONGING FOR MATERIAL GAIN
Covetousness; Avarice; Greed (emotion); Money-grabbing; Cupidity; Plutomania; Greed (sin); Greeds; Avaritia; Peniaphobic; Peniaphobe; Rapacity
n.
Avarice, cupidity, inordinate desire or greed, greed of gain.
Covetousness         
  • Frontispiece to a 1620 printing of Doctor Faustus showing Faustus conjuring Mephistophilis.
  • Jacques Callot, ''Greed'', probably after 1621
  • ''The Father and Mother'' by [[Boardman Robinson]] depicting War as the offspring of Greed and Pride
INSATIABLE LONGING FOR MATERIAL GAIN
Covetousness; Avarice; Greed (emotion); Money-grabbing; Cupidity; Plutomania; Greed (sin); Greeds; Avaritia; Peniaphobic; Peniaphobe; Rapacity
·noun Strong desire.
II. Covetousness ·noun A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money;
- in a bad sense.
greed         
  • Frontispiece to a 1620 printing of Doctor Faustus showing Faustus conjuring Mephistophilis.
  • Jacques Callot, ''Greed'', probably after 1621
  • ''The Father and Mother'' by [[Boardman Robinson]] depicting War as the offspring of Greed and Pride
INSATIABLE LONGING FOR MATERIAL GAIN
Covetousness; Avarice; Greed (emotion); Money-grabbing; Cupidity; Plutomania; Greed (sin); Greeds; Avaritia; Peniaphobic; Peniaphobe; Rapacity
Greed is the desire to have more of something, such as food or money, than is necessary or fair.
...an insatiable greed for personal power...
I get fed up with other people's greed.
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Ejemplos de uso de covetousness
1. It promotes ‘covetousness‘ which is ‘idolatry‘, as St Paul said in his Letter to the Corinthians.
2. Strolling round the one we‘ve taken out from Sunseeker‘s Poole Harbour HQ, I‘m seized by a fit of covetousness.
3. The left is accused of all manner of sins related to covetousness and envy whenever it raises questions about who benefits from Bush‘s tax cuts and mentions the yachts such folks might buy or the mansions they might own.