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the green-eyed monster

NOUN
enviousness
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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

When it comes to Lola, his protective impulses awaken the green-eyed monster in more insidious ways.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2016

If the general called and questioned happened to be one of the numerous class who had formed the acquaintance of the green-eyed monster, he entertained the Committee with shocking stories of his superior officers.

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley




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