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[ US /ˈdʒɛɫəsi/ ]
[ UK /d‍ʒˈɛləsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)
  2. zealous vigilance
    cherish their official political freedom with fierce jealousy

How To Use jealousy In A Sentence

  • These successes, if that is what they are, are tinged with a jealousy that legal writers elsewhere have a more publicly acknowledged involvement in moulding the law's development.
  • He discovers he is aroused by jealousy, so he encourages the young doctor to flirt with his wife.
  • Jealousy and suspicion are eroding our friendship.
  • Those on the left side accentuate anger, hate, jealousy, and selfishness. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
  • Old Drury Lane has called me in, with jealousy to cover 'em, And sent me round with their own bills, to go and plaster over 'em.
  • In love you have patience, kindness, the absence of jealousy, pride and boastfulness.
  • The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia. A Sicilian Romance
  • The feelings of jealousy are mostly about relationships rather than about objects. Families and Friends - how to help your child form happy relationships.
  • In a story like way, these paintings display the process of love, ‘that moves from initial flirtations, to the ecstasies of physical love consummation, then to the anxieties of jealousy and rejection’.
  • Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! Bob Marley 
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