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Jealous   /dʒˈɛləs/   Listen
Jealous

adjective
1.
Showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages.  Synonyms: covetous, envious.  "Jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions" , "Envious of their art collection"
2.
Suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival.  Synonyms: green-eyed, overjealous.






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... extreme. It was true Addington to refer to foreign tongues as jabber, and "that house", Jeffrey saw, was a stiff paraphrase for Esther's dwelling-place. He perceived here the same angry partisanship Reardon had betrayed. This was the jealous fire kindled invariably in men ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown

... be educated there, partly as hostages for their own peaceableness, and partly to learn the spirit of Roman rule. The first king who did this was Philip of Macedon, who sent his son Demetrius to be brought up at Rome; but when he came back, his father and brother were jealous of him, and he was soon put ...
— Young Folks' History of Rome • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... jealous brother merchants, attributed his great success to his luck. While undoubtedly he was fortunate in happening to be at the right place at the right time, yet he was precision, method, accuracy, energy itself. He left nothing to chance. His plans and schemes were worked out with mathematical ...
— Architects of Fate - or, Steps to Success and Power • Orison Swett Marden

... I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can justly be jealous of certain tenets of philosophy, such as those of Epicurus, which, denying a divine existence, and consequently a providence and a future state, seem to loosen, in a great measure, the ties of morality, and may be supposed, for that reason, pernicious ...
— An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding • David Hume et al

... certain worthy yeoman there who ought by rights to have been awarded the prize, but because he was a stranger the other wrestlers were jealous, and all set on him unfairly. As he was far from home and had no friends there, he would certainly have been slain if it had not been for the knight who, from the place where he stood, saw what was going ...
— The Junior Classics, V4 • Willam Patten (Editor)


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