Japanese bureaucrats are nothing but traitors to the country who covet our tax money and will continue the practice of amakudari until the country is bankrupt.
Source: tatoeba (402435)
Covet
//ˈkʌvɪt//
Synonyms for "covet" (28 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (14)
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Translations
95 translations across 35 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐπῐθῡμέω verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Arabic
3 entries- جَشِعَ verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- طَمُعَ verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- طَمِعَ verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- tamah salmaq verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Bulgarian
2 entries- жадувам verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- пожелавам verb (to have or indulge inordinate desire)
Burmese
1 entries- မက် verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 覬覦 /觊觎 verb (to long for inordinately or unlawfully)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 垂涎 verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- 渴望 verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- 貪圖 /贪图 verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- 貪求 /贪求 verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Danish
2 entries- attrå verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- begære verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Dutch
4 entries- begeren verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- begeren verb (to long for inordinately or unlawfully)
- hunkeren verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- lonken verb (to long for inordinately or unlawfully)
Esperanto
2 entries- avidi verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- deziri verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Finnish
2 entries- himoita verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- himoita verb (to have or indulge inordinate desire)
French
4 entries- convoiter verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- convoiter verb (to long for inordinately or unlawfully)
- désirer verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- guigner verb (to long for inordinately or unlawfully)
Galician
4 entries- bremar verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- cobizar verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- degorar verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- desexar verb (to wish for with eagerness)
German
2 entries- begehren verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- sehnen verb (to have or indulge inordinate desire)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌱𐌹𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉𐌽 verb (to have or indulge inordinate desire)
- 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Hebrew
1 entries- חמד verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Italian
2 entries- bramare verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- concupire verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Japanese
3 entries- 切望する verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- 欲張る verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- 貪る verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Latin
1 entries- concupio verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Malayalam
1 entries- കൊതിക്കുക verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Marathi
4 entries- अभिलाषणे verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- लालचणे verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- लालचावणे verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- लालुचणे verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Māori
4 entries- kaiapo verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- kaiapo verb (to long for inordinately or unlawfully)
- kōhaehae verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- kōhaehae verb (to have or indulge inordinate desire)
Norwegian
2 entries- attrå verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- ønske sterkt verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Old English
1 entries- wilnian verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Polish
1 entries- pożądać verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Portuguese
2 entries- cobiçar verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- desejar verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Romanian
4 entries- dori verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- jindui verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- ochi verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- râvni verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Russian
4 entries- домога́ться verb (to have or indulge inordinate desire)
- жажда́ть verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- жажда́ть verb (to long for inordinately or unlawfully)
- жажда́ть verb (to have or indulge inordinate desire)
Sanskrit
1 entries- गृध्यति verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- hlepiti verb (to long for inordinately or unlawfully)
- žudeti verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- žudeti verb (to have or indulge inordinate desire)
- žuditi verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Slovak
1 entries- mať zálusk (na niečo) verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Spanish
1 entries- codiciar verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Swedish
2 entries- begära verb (to wish for with eagerness)
- sukta verb (to have or indulge inordinate desire)
Tagalog
1 entries- imbutin verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Turkish
2 entries- gözü kalmak verb (to have or indulge inordinate desire)
- imrenmek verb (to wish for with eagerness)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Source: tatoeba (4368161)
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.
Source: tatoeba (8087546)
People from all over the world covet a table at this very restaurant.
Source: tatoeba (10766574)
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