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Cupidity :: Cupidity (n.) Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness.

Veto :: Veto (n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power..

Cob :: Cob (n.) A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person..

Vetoing :: Vetoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vet.

Grudge :: Grudge (v. i.) To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant.

Miserly :: Miserly (a.) Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.

Covetousness :: Covetousness (n.) Strong desire.

Veto :: Veto (n.) An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

Hard-fisted :: Hard-fisted (a.) Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly.

Niggard :: Niggard (n.) A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser..

Misery :: Misery (n.) Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.

Niggardly :: Niggardly (a.) Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard.

Grasping :: Grasping (a.) Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man..

Fast-handed :: Fast-handed (a.) Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.

Lust :: Lust (n.) To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after..

Veto :: Veto (n.) A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message.

Gripple :: Gripple (a.) Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious.

Covetous :: Covetous (v. t.) Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.

Pinch :: Pinch (v. i.) To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.

Miser :: Miser (n.) A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard..

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