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cov·et  (kvt)
v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets
v.tr.
1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy.
2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire.
v.intr.
To feel immoderate desire for that which is another's.

[Middle English coveiten, from Old French coveitier, from covitie, desire, from Latin cupidits, from cupidus, desirous, from cupere, to desire.]

covet·a·ble adj.
covet·er n.
covet·ing·ly adv.
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Impoverished living conditions make the quick profits of drug trade or other illicit markets covetable in any country, in any era, including the present one (as seen in Afghanistan).
If commercial photography is about the stimulation of desire in the service of consumption, then Ethridge plays with this dynamic in two seemingly unrelated series: a group of effortlessly beautiful pastoral landscapes made in upstate New York, which he says relates more to the imagery of covetable real estate than traditions of the Romantic or picturesque, and a sequence of portraits of young models (2000-2001).
As I write this I'm sitting in my studio in groovy Tribeca, rapidly becoming the city's most covetable neighbourhood.
 
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