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Перевод: covetous

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алчный; жадный; скупой; завистливый

Тезаурус:

1. Towards the end of Elizabeth's reign, covetous eyes began to be cast on far grander prizes.
2. There is a Scottish proverb which puts its point delightfully: "The covetous man will never have enough - until his mouth is filled with mould."
3. The two men had become increasingly resentful of the circle around the king, and their rebellion was specifically directed against the "covetous rule and guiding" of this group, identified in the rebels' manifesto as the family of queen Elizabeth Woodville, the earls of Devon and Pembroke, John lord Audley and Sir John Fogge.
4. The Commanders having in person executed the covetous part of Sacrilege, they leave the destructive and spoiling part to be finished by the common soldiers; who broke down the organs and dashing the pipes with their pole-axes, scoffingly said "hark how the organs go".
5. And he will find all sorts of possible explanations for the choice of godparents who are friends of the non-Christian couple, equally non-religious and yet quite happy to vow that they will, in the name of the child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, and the carnal desires of the flesh, so that they will not follow, nor be led by them.
6. He's being covetous the way I was.
7. Thanks to John Coleman of JC's Guitar Workshop in Newcastle for entrusting his Black Beauty to our sticky and covetous fingers.
8. In 1606 James I received an anonymous letter accusing "covetous and bloodie Popham" of ruining the poor people of the Fens.
9. There was no famine and for most urban residents conditions of life improved during the 1920s - 1930s, but cities were by no means the havens of wealth and prosperity that hostile or covetous agricultural ideologues made them out to be.
10. The Museum site includes a hard-standing and all the volunteers are keeping a covetous eye on a nearby T2-type hangar.
11. All through the American Civil War Thomas Cook watched the great North American continent, which was then virgin territory untrampled by the feet of British tourists, with a covetous eye.
12. Frau Nordern fingered the linen with covetous hands.
13. usurer and miser, "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!