Synonyms for covet
ˈkʌv ɪtcov·et

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1. covet

   Synonyms:
   admire, approve, crave, desire, enjoy, esteem, esteem, like, love, relish

   Antonyms:
   abhor, abominate, despise, detest, dislike, hate, loathe, nauseate, scorn, shun

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1. covet

   Synonyms:
   long for, wish for, yearn for, hanker, desire

   Antonyms:
   despise, dislike, undervalue, mislike

Princeton's WordNet

1. covetverb

   wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person)

   "She covets her sister's house"

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1. • Envy

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1. covetverb

   Synonyms:
   desire, long for, lust for, hanker after, aspire to

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How to use covet in a sentence?

1. Mark Twain:

   …[I]n order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

2. Mark Twain:

   He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

3. Epictetus:

   Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

4. Nicole Sherrod:

   It's a demographic that is very much into tech, so it's not shocking that it tends to skew much higher in their portfolios, take something like Tesla: It's something hot that millennials covet, and although they may not have the purchasing power to buy the car yet, they can certainly buy the stock.

5. Camille Paglia:

   In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.