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What is the adjective for covetousnesses?

What's the adjective for covetousnesses? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb covet which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

covetous
  1. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (especially money); avaricious.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Let men say what they will, for I defy a novice not to feel covetous of his friend's opportunities.”
      “Nor is their covetous thirst for money now less than their thirst was formerly for the blood of the sackless archbishop.”
      “The majority of benefices in these deaneries were unlikely to attract the covetous attention of pluralist clergy seeking to acquire rich livings.”
coveted
covetable
  1. Which may be coveted.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “His covetable sleek kitchens come flat-packed, ready to slot into preprepared plumbing and electrics.”
      “The most covetable house at that time would have been a suburban villa on a golf course.”
      “In both cases though these covetable paintings are explosive, celebratory and life-affirming.”
coveting
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