Word Meanings - COVETOUSNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Strong desire. When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad

Additional info about word: COVETOUSNESS

1. Strong desire. When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense. Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting. Sprat. Syn. -- Avarice; cupidity; eagerness.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COVETOUSNESS)

• Avarice
• Greed
• cupidity
• rapacity
• penuriousness
• niggardliness
• miserliness
• stinginess
• covetousness
• acquisitiveness
• griping
• greediness
• Cupidity

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