The customer voice, to my ears anyway, is covetous, skeptical, cautious, and a little cheap.
The bureaus amassed personal dossiers so detailed that J. Edgar Hoover was covetous.
Henry was covetous of their easy authority, which he believed came from handling large sums of money.
Unlike their Hong Kong neighbors, who are covetous of the rights they inherited from Britain, people here had little exposure to democratic political institutions under the Portuguese.
It wants the union to have more "own resources", meaning revenues independent of national treasuries, and is covetous of the financial-transactions tax that 11 countries plan to introduce.
One thing I shall endeavour to plant in his consciousness is that there is no need to be covetous when it comes to the size of someone else's car, house or salary.
Almaguer said authorities suspected the kidnappings were carried out by the upstart Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) – once El Chapo's allies, but now considered rivals of Guzmán's long-dominant Sinaloa cartel and thought to be covetous of his enormous criminal empire.
54 1 For some time past the Athenians had been covetous of Sicily because of the fertility of its land, p35 and so at the moment, gladly accepting the proposals of Gorgias, they voted to send an allied force to the Leontines, offering as their excuse the need and request of their kinsmen, whereas in fact they were eager to get possession of the island.
Jay was covetous of Conan's time on air, "Seven months!
We can (and should) be covetous to the point of paranoia.
It is only because the Republicans are covetous of taking Wall Street back from Obama that they have stayed clear of the usual target of populism, the conduct and mores of Wall Street itself.
