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coveted

[kuhv-it]

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verb (used with object)

to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.

to wish for, especially eagerly: He won the prize they all coveted.

verb (used without object)

to have an inordinate or wrongful desire.

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Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English coveiten < Anglo-French coveiter, Old French coveit(i)er < Vulgar Latin *cupidiētāre, verbal derivative of *cupidiētās, for Latin cupititās cupidity

Related forms

cov·et·a·ble, adjective

cov·et·er, noun

cov·et·ing·ly, adverb

un·cov·et·ed, adjective

un·cov·et·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. See envy.

Antonyms
1. renounce.

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Why some women quit their coveted tenure-track jobs.

The reason is that the right to trade on the exchanges is no longer hotly coveted.

Commodities such as fur and timber also earn coveted foreign currency.

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Why some women quit their coveted tenure-track jobs.

The reason is that the right to trade on the exchanges is no longer hotly coveted.

Commodities such as fur and timber also earn coveted foreign currency.

But new research is extending our coveted smart phone time, by putting the phone almost to sleep.

Tequila is the region that boasts the designation of origin of the coveted drink by the same name.

Increasingly, the value crowd is turning to many of the same big-name technology stocks once coveted by the growth investors.

Because your students need work, even when it's not the coveted tenure-track job.

Without that coveted status, workers are condemned to temporary or part-time jobs.

Each year, hundreds of people across the country hunt one coveted waterfowl trophy.

We went from chattering excitedly to trying to barter with each other for coveted items.

For this reason, he believes the technology will be coveted by pharmaceutical companies.

Financiers are highly coveted candidates for university governing boards.

Curiously the lid became a coveted item and the octopus hid it from its keepers.

Even many of those all-important and highly coveted undecided voters aren't really undecided.

Financiers are coveted candidates for governing boards, offering valuable investment guidance for endowment funds.

Coveted as fertilizer, the dung must be reaped by hand.

I've even thought about leaving the coveted tenure track for another job where this won't be a problem.

Estonians have coveted intricate, hand-painted marzipan candy figures for more than five centuries.

But it wasn't easy to persuade staff members who coveted their on-campus spaces to relocate.

Rope is a coveted commodity in these rural mountain areas.

In fact, my cats will often perform to excess to obtain the coveted treats.

European nobles coveted ceramic gifts commemorating engagements, marriages, and political alliances.

He was asked to leave the job he once coveted for years, the one for which he.

They will sit one of the three exams required to earn the coveted status of chartered financial.

Fireplace walls can create the perfect spot for that coveted accent wall.

Whether it is bestowing a coveted toy, cuddling up in an easy.

He fairly apportioned coveted spots on the powerful committees.

The oil and gas producer is moving into the coveted sector of natural gas contained in shale deposits.

Take a woman who toils through eight years of post-graduate education and gets a coveted tenure-track position at age.

Throughout its tumultuous history, this coveted city has been a beacon.

Beers that had paved their own unique paths to potential fame vied for a coveted crown that only one would wear.

Some of these students certainly did not earn or deserve their coveted spots.

But the flip side of this genius is that people come to take for granted things they once coveted from afar.

White spaces have been coveted by technology companies for their potential.

The company might also jeopardise its coveted triple-A credit rating.

Kids actually compete for highly coveted spots running the railroad and they're excused from school for their work.

Then he realized there were others who coveted the planes as much as he did.

Other new hires may be senior professors who got fellowships or coveted visiting professorships at fancy universities.

But they are also coveted by several industries for their omega-3-rich oils.

It is not likely to resume in the marketplace before the coveted holiday season.

The coveted bits of scripture allow you to unlock the doors of worldly wisdom.

Unfortunately, too much adjunct teaching will make it harder for you to secure that coveted secure position.

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Word Origin & History

covet

early 13c., from O.Fr. coveitier, probably ult. from L. cupiditas "passionate desire," from cupidus "very desirous," from cupere "long for, desire."

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"The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful."

-Henry David Thoreau

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