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coveted

[ kuhv-i-tid ]

adjective

  1. wrongfully or inordinately desired:

    Pizarro led a party of conquistadores in an attempt to discover El Dorado—the source of the coveted gold of the Incas.

  2. highly or eagerly wished for:

    The Green Building Council's gold certification is a coveted prize for sustainable building design.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of covet ( def ).

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  • un·cov·et·ed adjective

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Example Sentences

But after winning 55 percent of the white vote, Duke had a database of supporters some politicians coveted.

“The district appeared to have lost its coveted title,” it reads.

Its premiere episode attracted 2.2 million viewers and 1.6 demo in the coveted 18-49 age demographic.

The 30-something heroine glamorized the metropolis and its coveted name brands, Arora says.

The 69-year-old Modiano is well known, even celebrated, in France, where he has previously been awarded the coveted Prix Goncourt.

They know where to find the coveted knowledge, but they do not possess it or retain it in their minds.

After eighteen years of railway life, at the age of 34, I had attained the coveted position of a general manager.

Her mother pressed the coveted treasure to her bosom with maternal love, more calm, and deep, and enduring.

Amongst others, the free inhabitants of Eboracum and Verulamium enjoyed the coveted rights of Roman citizenship.

But what they coveted most of all were those mysterious articles whose meaning and use they could make nothing of.

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