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jealous
adjective as in desirous; wary
Strongest matches
anxious, apprehensive, attentive, envious, intolerant, possessive, protective, resentful, skeptical, suspicious
Weak matches
begrudging, covetous, demanding, doubting, emulous, envying, grabby, grasping, green-eyed, grudging, guarded, invidious, jaundiced, mistrustful, monopolizing, possessory, questioning, rival, solicitous, vigilant, watchful, zealous
Example Sentences
A mum and her three children were murdered in a fire after her sister's "jealous" ex-partner broke into their home and set it alight, a trial has heard.
When the laborers who bore the heat and toil of the full day’s work are jealous, the owner of the field asks them why they resent his generosity.
"It's hard not to feel jealous sometimes. You see people worrying about hand prints on the walls or toys all over the floor. We'd give anything for that kind of normal."
Is she jealous of her father’s attention to Rachel?
The founders may have opted for more permissive language because they were relying on norms and a jealous legislative branch to constrain presidential adventurism.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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