| In my books there are healthy, happy people, and craven, covetous, miserable people. |
| He was rash, arrogant and obstinate, contentious, envious and malicious, covetous and corrupt. |
| Poverty and misery have not imbued these characters with dignity but rather have made them covetous and begrudging. |
| Christensen thinks that this new approach to power won't go out of style, that the negative always breeds covetous attention. |
| The majority of benefices in these deaneries were unlikely to attract the covetous attention of pluralist clergy seeking to acquire rich livings. |
| Our valiant forces were lying in wait for them, inflicting heavy losses on the covetous invaders. |
