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green-eyed monster

noun as in jealousy

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If you’re wondering how to turn the so-called green-eyed monster into a positive force in your life, here are five steps to take.

It doesn’t matter what others are or aren’t doing or getting; envy is a green-eyed monster.

The thing about the green-eyed monster is that it feeds most ravenously on real talent.

The truth is, as with many instances of envy, this strain of green-eyed monster is born of inequity.

But seeing the large amounts of research funding being diverted to an area that overlaps with my own interests brings out the green-eyed monster in me.

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

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