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What does "coveted" goal mean?
What does "coveted" goal mean?
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To covet something is to want something you do not have, especially something someone else has.
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To covet something is to want something you do not have, especially something someone else has.
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Coveted = desired or wanted in an almost religious way
Goals are not saints, so describing it as "coveted" is meant sarcastically.
She had coveted the Louis Vuitton shoes for so long that when she finally got them for her birthday, she cried.
Your coveted little dog just shit on my carpet!
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"To covet" is most famously used in the Bible in two of the Ten Commandments: "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife" and "You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor." There it refers to adultery in particular and envy in general.
The word is also used in the film "The Silence of the Lambs." "How do we learn to covet? Do we seek out things to covet? No, we covet what we see every day."
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