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 covetousness ['kʌvitəsnis添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 妄羡
贪婪

  1. Covetousness is the root of all evil.
    贪婪是一切邪恶的根源。
  2. Poverty wants many things, and covetousness [avarice] all.
    穷人缺乏许多东西,财迷想要所有东西。
  3. He also says that covetousness is idolatry (Colossians 3:5).
    他还说贪婪就与拜偶像一样(以西结书3:5)。


covetousness
[ noun ]
  1. an envious eagerness to possess something

  2. <noun.feeling>
  3. extreme greed for material wealth

  4. <noun.attribute>
  5. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

  6. <noun.act>


Covetousness \Cov"et*ous*ness\, n.
1. Strong desire. [R.]

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.

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