covetousness in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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convoitise (péché)
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It is also a novel about greed and covetousness, ownership, and is even a love story between older people.
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The dictionary defines envy as a feeling of covetousness with regard to another's advantages, success, and possessions.
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He sees covetousness in financiering practiced in a manner to obtain houses, castles, and land through foreclosure.
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They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice.
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Covetousness may exist without such a deliberate design, when the mind is stimulated and tickled by objects on which we set our affection.
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A greedy perfect world; the choice between morality and covetousness; and the created life that will change everything.
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Dishonesty and covetousness are signs of blind illiteracy.
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I am sure vicars will overcome any sense of covetousness.
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Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Finally, the tenth commandment (alphabets 363-379) deals with the laws implied in the prohibition against covetousness.
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