Jealously
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Jealously is an adverb meaning In a jealous manner.
Meaning
In a jealous manner.
Example Sentences
"[…] I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance?" replied his companion, something jealously.
So be warned – that influencer you are jealously watching travel the world might not be telling you every piece of the story. There’s a chance they never even left home at all.
Ah! my brother, we do well to watch our birthright jealously; the least invasion on the meanest peasant, the slightest encroachment of the powerful, are not matters to be neglected—such are the first steps of tyranny.
Very many thousand times above Dudley Sowerby, Nataly ranked Dartrey Fenellan; and still she looked at him, where he sat beside Nesta, ungenially, critical of the very features, jealously in the interests of Dudley; and recollecting, too, that she had once prayed for one exactly resembling Dartrey Fenellan to be her Nesta's husband.
Synonyms for jealously
Depending on context, synonyms include covetously, enviously.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include enviously, covetously, scrupulously, envyingly, paranoidly, unjealously.
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