(a.) Exacting exclusive devotion; intolerant of rivalry.
(a.) Disposed to suspect rivalry in matters of interest and affection; apprehensive regarding the motives of possible rivals, or the fidelity of friends; distrustful; having morbid fear of rivalry in love or preference given to another; painfully suspicious of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover.
Example Sentences:
(1) Political leaders in Stormont have looked on jealously as their southern neighbours continue to use low corporate taxes to attract foreign direct investment and want their own rate set at a level close to the republic’s.
(2) If you've somehow missed the multi-million-selling series turned mini-series turned musical by the Scissor Sisters let me tell you how very jealous of you I am.
(3) "She was jealous of the past, but she'd have done better being jealous of the future," political commentator Catherine Nay said this week.
(4) They guard their cashflow increasingly jealously, and one particular sticking point that led to the collapse of Phones 4u is understood to have been the chain's insistence that if it signed a customer up to a network, it should get the entire commission upfront, rather than piecemeal over the life of a 24-month contract.
(5) Although I've learned to appreciate the grim beauty of murkiness, the washrag skies and mud so jealous it clings to every step, this emerald vision in the monochrome gloom is startling.
(6) In an interview last week with the New York Times , Cyrus had accused the rap star of being jealous and said that she had confronted music industry racism the wrong way.
(7) Speculation that a jealous lover could have been responsible for a professional hit in the very heart of Moscow has been dismissed by Nemtsov’s friends and colleagues as implausible.
(8) Politicians guard their own privacy pretty jealously.
(9) French media describe a dangerous love-life "psychodrama", in which the once-nerdy Socialist president is "sandwiched" between two jealous women from his present and past – a "dysfunctional trio" at the highest levels of the French state, said the leftwing Libération.
(10) There is no plot – I have given up proposing ideas because each time I do, the genius jealously feels I am hijacking the grand plan.
(11) Everyone has their own opinions, some are probably jealous but it is going to a great cause, it is going to help the youngsters in Banksy's home town."
(12) It’s also a comprehensive health and fitness device, it’s GPS-enabled and it hooks up with your iPhone – a dream for NSA agents and jealous-minded partners everywhere.
(13) Liverpool, with five points out of six games, left it too late and will be jealous onlookers when the Champions League resumes in February.
(14) For a moment I think some jealous caveman has bludgeoned me with a club but, from my prone position, I can see that there is a nasty rock protrusion at head height.
(15) That won’t, however, mean opening up her jealously guarded private life.
(16) Recently Habibo's hand was broken by a man who was jealous that she had been promoted to join the housing allocation committee.
(17) In his memoir , Brown’s former aide Damian McBride candidly describes the thrill of having the ear of one of the most powerful men in the land – though he confesses the prime minister would “stare at [him] sullenly for a moment or two, then say: ‘Get me Ed Balls.’” I certainly met plenty of chiefs of staff and spin doctors who jealously guarded their privileged access to a particular politician and their status as that MP’s “vicar on Earth”.
(18) Then [Pharrell] started playing a little something, and we literally wrote the song in about a half hour and recorded it.” Thicke now claims: “After making six albums that I wrote and produced myself, the biggest hit of my career was written and produced by somebody else, and I was jealous and I wanted some of the credit,” the singer said in his deposition.
(19) There are signs of a dark side, too; the jealous possessiveness of friends, the trembling fear of physical intimacy, the ability to work himself up into convenient hysterics at the slightest hint of pressure.
(20) The argument that she must be jealous of the models has been levelled at Holmes too.
Zeal
Definition:
(n.) Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor.
(n.) A zealot.
(v. i.) To be zealous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
(2) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(3) The second approach for a UK-listed drug company by a US rival underlined the deal-making zeal that has seized the pharmaceutical sector.
(4) Piano, who is conscious of having grown up in a generation that fought to preserve Italy's exquisite historical town centres from the bulldozing zeal of modernisers, is grateful that crucial battle was waged and – to a certain extent – won.
(5) There they discovered a little-known club called Amnesia and a DJ called Alfredo and instead of coming back with a few out-of-focus snaps, Paul Oakenfold, Johnny Walker, Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway returned home exhausted but burning with a missionary zeal.
(6) The Tea Party represents a serious strand in American public life – old-world fundamentalist in its exclusivity, self-righteousness and religious zeal.
(7) Like the Saudis, the Qataris dismiss accusations they helped create Isis by recklessly financing and arming Islamist rebels in Syria in their zeal to see Assad go.
(8) In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
(9) Peter Hain had replaced John Hutton as secretary of state for work and pensions, which was a considerable downgrade so far as reforming zeal was concerned.
(10) Once they got to grips with Leicester’s zeal, Villa began to demonstrate the greater guile.
(11) Circle's chief executive, Ali Parsa, said: "At a time when some healthcare commentators say the solution for small district general hospitals is simply to merge or be shut down, we believe the NHS Midlands and East's courage and zeal for innovation will enable us to show how clinician and staff control can provide a more sustainable alternative."
(12) The zeal for developing and marketing newer fluoroquinolones closely parallels that of the cephalosporins for the last 10 years.
(13) But Dr Steven Murdoch, a researcher at the computer laboratory of Cambridge University, said Chinese authorities have been using such methods with increasing zeal.
(14) You know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago,” it said in a statement emailed to journalists with unusual zeal and which also repeated the Trump trope of “the dishonest media”.
(15) Their anger has so far been contained to the country's Sunni strongholds, but it contains a counter-revolutionary zeal prompting observers to fear that today's civil disobedience could be the start of something far worse.
(16) Putin said recently he could not rule out an amnesty of those involved in the case, which analysts say has been pursued with such zeal in order to discourage street protests against the regime.
(17) With great zeal, this pioneer used fluoroscopy for early detection of tuberculosis and other life-threatening chest disorders.
(18) The government's response to the rise in self-employment has been to praise the UK's entrepreneurial zeal, while increasingly promoting self-employment as an option to job-seekers."
(19) "Maybe she has genuine philanthropic zeal, but maybe she just wants to sell more records.
(20) He’s also a convert to Catholicism whose conservative zeal possibly outstrips the pope’s, a master of the upper-middlebrow reactionary style originated by William F Buckley, and the owner of a Twitter account specializing in bad predictions and more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger sermonizing.