noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mad with grief/fear/jealousy etc
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When she heard of her son’s death, she was mad with grief.
pang of jealousy/guilt/remorse/regret
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She felt a sudden pang of guilt.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
petty
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The sudden rivalries and petty jealousies .
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Her petty jealousy and deep ambivalence about Dickinson explode through her schoolmarm prose.
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Whoever succeeds Kinnock, these differences are unlikely to get in anyone's way. Petty rivalries and jealousies will.
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This bitter struggle was personified by the Soong family, for years rent by political differences and petty jealousies .
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Athelstan watched the scene around him and tried to keep his mind free of Benedicta and the petty jealousies which nagged him.
professional
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There's an even an air of professional jealousy at the Pinchers' Berkshire home.
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It hardly mattered whether unfounded suspicion, bred by professional jealousy , or something more serious had prompted this anonymous note.
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Which begins with a disclaimer, denying even a grain of professional jealousy .
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A very scholarly and erudite work, widely acclaimed at the time but since much maligned. Professional jealousy ?
■ VERB
feel
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For an instant Alyssia felt a rush of jealousy , which she just as quickly stamped on.
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Jane feels jealousy and berates herself for having imagined Rochester attracted to her plain self.
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It felt like jealousy , but how could she know that?
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If he felt a pang of jealousy , it vanished at once.
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The pain she felt went beyond jealousy this time.
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I certainly felt lust and jealousy , but if that's all love was, it wasn't enough.
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He felt a pang of jealousy .
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You're so young, you've never felt love or jealousy , have you, Miss Eyre?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a twinge of guilt/envy/sadness/jealousy etc
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Carew felt a twinge of envy.
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Romanov felt a twinge of envy at the thought that he could never hope to live in such style.
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Thrilled by the beauty of the scene, she had sometimes felt a twinge of envy for the people on board.
be eaten up with/by jealousy/anger/curiosity etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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For a moment, she was overcome by jealousy .
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He quit last week, citing office politics and petty jealousies.
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How should a single mother deal with her son's jealousy of her new boyfriend?
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On one level, the story of Snow White is about a mother's jealousy of her daughter's beauty and sexuality.
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Professional jealousy can cause huge problems in the office.
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The police believe Morgan strangled his girlfriend in a fit of jealousy .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Acknowledge your jealousy , laugh at your unreasonable behaviour, and don't take yourself so seriously.
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Educated men hid their jealousy awfully well.
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I am immobilized by anger, jealousy , and revulsion.
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Psychologists have found that couples who lack moments of jealousy are less likely to stay together than jealous ones.
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She merely shook her head while jealousy gnawed at her.