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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1. 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.

2. Dave Nonis:

   We need to get value, i know from talking to other teams that they covet some of the players we have. If there are trades that make sense for us, we're going to do it.

3. Epictetus:

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

4. 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.

5. 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.