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jealous English

Meaning jealous meaning

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Definitions in simple English

jealous

To be jealous is to want something someone else has. I'm jealous of all your free time. Your new cell phone is making me jealous.

jealous

(= covetous, envious) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages he was never covetous before he met her jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions envious of their art collection suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival a jealous lover

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Simple sentences

I was not jealous.
I'm jealous of you.
She is not jealous.
Tom and Mary told John that they were jealous.
The reason why Mary behaves like this is she's jealous of your success.
She will be jealous.
You're just jealous!
Mary used to be jealous.
He was sick of being vilified all the time by people who were jealous of his ability.
The other girls are jealous of Lily because she is extremely pretty.
Everybody was jealous of my success.
You must not be jealous of others' success.
He was jealous of my success.
He was jealous of their happiness.
He is jealous of her talent.
They are jealous of our success.
She was jealous when he talked to another girl.
I was jealous of my brother.
Their feelings are intense and they tend to be jealous.
I hate jealous women.
A jealous person gets a feeling of contentment by behaving like a dog in the manger even with his friends.
He was jealous of his wife.
She's just jealous of your youth.
She is totally jealous of your youth.

Movie subtitles

Trying to make me jealous?
It was my idea for Valencia to put on the wedding dress, and then when I saw her in it, I-I got jealous.
Obviously someone is jealous of our close, professional relationship.
Yeah, but we just thought you were jealous, 'cause you guys always used to compete over who was the leader of the group.
Yeah, I thought you were just saying that 'cause you were jealous.
So when you killed Scarlett in a fit of jealous rage, you knew you had a way out.
The jealous fiance?
The jealous Lyduschka knows all about the old Scapinelli and fears for Balduin.
Jealous, my little girl?
Any jealous attempt on your part to interefere with the performance will prove disastrous to your career.
He's clever, and he's jealous, and he's coming here.
We'll be so gloriously happy. that even the French will be jealous of us.
Don't say that, I could get jealous of myself and beat myself up one day!
I should be jealous pretty soon.
She is jealous of me.
Why would I be jealous of a girl who tried to kill herself?
Are you jealous?
Let me go! She's jealous!
She's jealous!
That awful woman is jealous!
I know she gets jealous and I should've listened to her.
A jealous, hysterical fool.
You left me without a word purely because I indulged in a womans trick to make you. jealous.
You are a jealous upstart, Magnus.
And to be jealous of Antonio is a high form of patriotism.
You sounded jealous.
Are you jealous of my wife?
How could he be jealous of a guy 42 years old?
Now, don't be jealous, pal.
No, I guess I'm a little jealous.
Besides, we did have an agreement not to be jealous of each other.
Besides, I can't be jealous of someone I've never really had.
She'll be jealous.
It's not only that I'm jealous, but I'm worried about you.
I'm too old to be jealous.
George is very jealous. Pass the mustard.
Not jealous, are you?
And listen to your jealous outbursts?

News and current affairs

President Kuchma's administration has proved a jealous overseer of Ukraine's media, particularly the electronic outlets.
In Tocqueville's imagination, at least, the old order's subjects had been eager to protect their particular liberties and jealous of their spheres of independence.
Formerly, leaders of the people were leaders of their communities, often personally known to those whom they served, and jealous of their reputations for probity and fair dealing.
The Dodd-Frank Act did succeed in putting the OTS out of its misery, but jealous congressional oversight committees have prevented a merger of the SEC and CFTC, and nothing has been done to rationalize banking supervision.
My father understood that the Chief Designers were ambitious and jealous people.
Many developing countries, in particular, remain jealous of their sovereignty and fear that the new principle could infringe it.
They have also contributed mightily to the high general level of asset prices, helping create the vast riches of which today's hungry young traders are so jealous.
It is this narrow, black-and-white view of humanity that has perpetuated a cycle of violence in Cambodia, where raging mobs beat to death robbery suspects and young mistresses suffer acid attacks by jealous wives.

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