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green-eyed monster

noun as in jealousy

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Example Sentences

Othello was warned to stay away from the ‘green-eyed monster.’

It is the green-eyed monster which never did and never will improve each shining hour, but quite the reverse.

Beware of jealousy; "it is the green-eyed monster, which doth make the meat it feeds on."

No, nor even with the green-eyed monster Jealousy her unscrupulous effrontery had not hesitated to impute.

All sorts of things seem to conspire to feed "the green-eyed monster" into a state of fatness.

Ah, sweet wife, never let the green-eyed monster trouble the peace of your heart!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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