covetousness

Russia's covetousness toward Ukraine differs somewhat from its other colonization activities, but comes from the same underlying desire to subjugate.

“Certainly. Go, dear, I forgot that you have any home but this,” and Mrs. March pressed the white hand that wore the wedding ring, as if asking pardon for her maternal covetousness.

One year I cheated by pooling my group with my younger sister’s, guilty of the sin of covetousness.

The covetousness is conspicuous in the new thriller “Envy: A Seven Deadly Sins Story.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau denounced fashion as a threat to moral society — an incitement to desire and covetousness, writing that finery is a “stranger to virtue.”