COVETOUS

(adj.) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
"they are avaricious and will do anything for money", "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields", "a grasping old miser", "grasping commercialism", "greedy for money and power", "grew richer and greedier", "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
synonyms : avaricious , grabby , grasping , greedy , prehensile
Cinderella’s prehensile sisters tried their best to marry the prince. -added by naila_inlas
(adj.) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
"he was never covetous before he met her", "jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions", "envious of their art collection"
synonyms : envious , jealous

Mnemonics for covetous

(Tag: ) covetous = split it as cove(love) + to + US ; because of excessive greed and the love for money covetous people go to USA. i remembered like that.
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(Tag: coveted) winners are always greedy (/ covetous \)to win the COVETED titles/cups. ...................................... also ............ In media reports, sports news are always like --> a competition for The "COVETED" title/cup.
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(Tag: ) karan johar is covetous about kareena kapoor
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(Tag: ) cove(cover)+tous(others)-cover others property
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(Tag: ) Covetousness is one of the seven deadly sins described in bible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins#Greed
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(Tag: English) Split it as COVE(love) TOwards US $ (dollar).
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(Tag: ) bush was so greedy or jealous that he cover whole of US
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(Tag: ) My friend Kavit [covet] is very much greedy.
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(Tag: ) let us (ous) cover (cove) = we are greedy for it and want to occupy (cover) it.
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(Tag: ) "covet all lose all"
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