covet 的 2 个定义
- to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.
- to wish for, especially eagerly: He won the prize they all coveted.
- to have an inordinate or wrongful desire.
covet 近义词
desire strongly
更多covet例句
- Monica BurtonFlavored ices and frozen desserts have been coveted for thousands of years, across many cultures, by people who have gone to great lengths to procure them.
- My pick this year is that Jim Walmsley is finally going to give us the win that we have so desperately coveted over the last 15 or so years.
- Any woman who pursues what she covets can be seen as selfish or unrelatable.
- Read more on OZYThe notion of home and space has perhaps never been as coveted as it is right now.
- The sheer utility of the design now struck me as elegant, and I began to covet them, before finally acquiring a Rivendell Platypus.
- The U.S. needs influence with credible actors on the ground more than those groups covet small bits of U.S. assistance.
- Mothers-to-be covet it like a Birkin bag, and celebrity moms are known to splurge on it.
- The label has gained an especially impressive footing in markets that covet its strong American appeal.
- I ask if he thinks Christie should run for president, an office that McGreevey himself was once widely assumed to covet.
- They are not merely trying to stir up desire—to covet, to shop, to consume.
- And latterly eyes had been turned to Vienna, where dwelt Prince Alix, who was known to covet the throne.
- The art of breaking the tenth commandment—thou shalt not covet they neighbor's wife—has reached its highest perfection in France.
- The next thought was the impression that, no matter how many might covet it, it was exhaustless, and would last forever.
- Unpleasant and monotonous things, which we claim make our own work unbearable, we ignore in occupations which we covet or admire.
- We covet superfluous things, when it were more honour for us if we would contemn necessary.