green-eyed

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It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss

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suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival; "a jealous lover"

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adjective

suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival; "a jealous lover"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for green-eyed.

adjective

suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival; "a jealous lover"

Example sentences

It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss

36 are blue-eyed people and 4 are green-eyed.

If a blue-eyed person says it about green-eyed people ...Or they could just say, 'don't hire green people'.

GP chose green-eyed people in order to be inoffensive.

But I don't like people with green eyes, so green-eyed candidates had better be pretty pleasing to me.

If a green-eyed person says, 'blue-eyed people are scum and we should kill them all', they might get some looks and some people might take a few steps away, but there isn't much threat.

"“If you keep in mind that he is what I refer to as a corrupt idealist, then you can be assured that he will move mountains for you.” The green-eyed man laughed.

Who is it protecting?I think the metaphor makes it comfortable to believe that it must be protecting someone, when in reality the green-eyed people might not exist.

There is a long history of many blue-eyed people enslaving, oppressing, lynching, discriminating against, and hating green-eyed people.

But they can please me in any way, not necessarily in ways relevant to the metric for which the prize is awarded—maybe I also like tall people so a really tall green-eyed person averages out in terms of my predilections.

And a dog is an omen, and a cat is a mystery, and a pig is a mascot and a beetle is a scarab, calling up all the menagerie of polytheism from Egypt and old India; Dog Anubis and great green-eyed Pasht and all the holy howling Bulls of Bashan; reeling back to the bestial gods of the beginning, escaping into elephants and snakes and crocodiles; and all because you are frightened of four words: “He was made Man.”’