green-eyed monster
Example Sentences
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It doesn’t matter what others are or aren’t doing or getting; envy is a green-eyed monster.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2021
It perplexed the author that Rebecca was marketed by her publisher as a love story; she viewed it as very dark, and all of its characters as eaten alive by the green-eyed monster.
From Slate • Oct. 19, 2020
Can you really vanquish the green-eyed monster with introspection and communication alone?
From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2018
Incongruous as it may seem, giggles abound in this clever and exuberantly performed hip-hop musical version of Shakespeare’s tragedy about a Moorish general troubled by the green-eyed monster.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2017
Cristiana glared at me like the proverbial green-eyed monster.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
