What's the difference between jealously and zealously?

Jealously


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a jealous manner.

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.

Zealously


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Republicans were under pressure not to dwell on Clinton’s use of a private email server as too zealous an attack could come off as partisan.
  • (2) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
  • (3) His allies charge the prime minister with cowardice for dispatching one of his most zealously reforming ministers.
  • (4) Abaaoud’s older sister, Yasmina, told the New York Times in January that neither of the brothers showed a zealous interest in religion before leaving for Syria.
  • (5) Asked about the plan, Baker said on Monday that "both sides of the coalition" wanted high streets to prosper and that he agreed that over-zealous action by traffic wardens could be a problem.
  • (6) Care must be taken to guard against the health worker being overly zealous in motivating and mobilizing potential voluntary sterilization contraception candidates.
  • (7) Colonel David Black of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment says soldiers need to operate without being worried about "over-zealous and remote officialdom".
  • (8) After a zealous assessment of respective anatomical merits, attention switched to flaws.
  • (9) Those who leave the left are often those who end up detesting it more: becoming a convert often means being more zealous than existing believers.
  • (10) Sutherland said the Co-op bank's bad loans were mostly accounted for by Britannia, with half of all its poorly performing retail loans and three quarters of its roughly £440m corporate bad debts blamed on over-zealous loan agreements sold by the building society.
  • (11) Miller, too, earned Trump’s praise and widespread scorn for his zealous defense of the president and for peddling a baseless claim about phantom illegal voting.
  • (12) Most attempts to humanize medicine have at best been temporary, barely touching the margins of medicine and sustained largely by their zealous advocates.
  • (13) Arteta had been introduced as an early substitute for Coquelin, who hurt his knee in a zealous tackle on Claudio Yacob.
  • (14) In that sense, zealous neoconservatism may not be the cleverest political option, and May's ideas may yet point the way ahead.
  • (15) It has been zealously guarded by the recipients of the letters themselves, and over the last few years, by the full might of the British state and government, as Whitehall has fought every step of the way to stop the Freedom of Information Act disclosure of the letters to Rob Evans of the Guardian.
  • (16) When finally open public welfare was translated into reality during 1918-1933 as a result of the zealous efforts on the part of the reformatory psychiatrists, this was mainly done to save cost, whereas Kolb's original aims were largely lost in the process.
  • (17) Then, one evening, her zealous son accused her of tacitly criticising Mao.
  • (18) They are in the firing line if they do not endorse a zealous world view.
  • (19) They are beaten up and raped daily and it's not because they feel bad about themselves or have been got at by some zealous politically correct propaganda.
  • (20) Behind him lies the zealous, over-confident Dominic Cummings, his special adviser at education – forced out – humiliated at the Treasury select committee when his version of reality collided with its clever Tory chairman, Andrew Tyrie.

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