jealousy - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • arouse: Louis XV must have known who he was, for he extended to him a friendship that aroused the jealousy of his court.
  • excite: Both these forms of production are of a kind not likely to excite local trade jealousy.
  • provoke: The aim was to provoke true Godly jealousy - not to start a war among believers.
  • feel: How can you offset jealousy felt by older children over the new arrival?
  • cause: This caused violent jealousy on the part of other court artists.
  • create: And having more than wife creates jealousy and quarrels in the family.

Converse of subject

  • consume: Annie begs Gilbert to spare Peter's life, but he refuses, consumed by jealousy and suspicion that Annie still loves Peter.
  • drive: Are you driven by jealousy or do you allow it to cloud your judgment?
  • motivate: Any type of redemption in the pagan mythology was motivated by petty jealousy or some type of law that even the gods were under.

Adjective modifier

  • petty: I'd never have made it to 1998 a football fan if my teams fortunes and petty jealousy governed whether I enjoyed the game.
  • godly: Here is a godly jealousy, which results in action.
  • unhealthy: However, you have probably not bought this book just to understand unhealthy jealousy.
  • sexual: Sexual transference is simply the effect of anxiety on sexual jealousy.
  • bitter: Hence arose a bitter jealousy from the side of the secular clergy toward the monks.
  • mutual: The arts of Tyrrel occasioned both a good deal of annoyance, by false representations calculated to excite their mutual jealousy.

Modifies a noun

  • quot: It has also the jealousy quot beaten the odds.

Noun used with modifier

  • sibling: Tales of sibling jealousy, dirty family secrets exposed, cringe worthy taboo busting embarrassment.

Preposition: in

  • mode: The child's identification with a parent centers on jealousy in love mode.

Preposition: of

  • other: It is an authority unmarked by the jealousy of others which assumes my authority is another person's subjection.

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