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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
The next day, Dodgen-Magee got a phone call saying Sarah’s father had shot and killed Sarah, her younger siblings, Rachel and April, and their mother, Laura, in a fit of jealous rage.
Nick Eittreim, 28, was always jealous of the fans who got to attend those parties.
“I was madly in love with the Lord of the Jungle, terribly jealous of his Jane,” Goodall wrote in her 1999 memoir, “Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey.”
"I was jealous of some people I recognised from school, queuing up with a ticket in their hands," he added.
Subsequently, a court was told the defendant's mental health began to decline in 2023, with Tape becoming paranoid and then jealous.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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