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adjective

Green-eyed adj.

Having green eyes.

Seeing everything under the influence of emotions which discolor or distort. "Green-eyed jealousy."

Hence: Suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival.

Synonyms: jealous, overjealous.

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Etymology of 'Green-eyed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Green-eyed" Quotes from Famous Books

... and romances of his own, while regretting that it never occurred to Theocritus to write a bergerie de chats. He tells stories of blameless pussies beloved by Fontanelle and La Fontaine, and quotes Marot in praise of "the green-eyed Venus." But he tears himself away at last from all these historical reminiscences, and in his eleventh letter he deals with cats as they are. We hasten as lightly as possible over a story of the disinterestedness of a feline Heloise, which is ...

— Gossip in a Library • Edmund Gosse

... a green-eyed redhead with a kind of patrician look about her face that came off very well in the photographs they took of her. Deena was a model, and made three times the ...

— Lease to Doomsday • Lee Archer

... to be whipped," he went on sternly. "How dare you play with the green-eyed monster I'm wearing on my sleeve? Haven't ...

— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow

... true. Levina was a prey to that green-eyed monster which sports itself with the miseries of humanity. She had been the best broideress in the Castle until that day. And now she felt herself suddenly supplanted by a young thing of barely more than half her age ...

— Earl Hubert's Daughter - The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century • Emily Sarah Holt

... state of inaction to which we were doomed, aggravated by the stings of mosquitoes and large green-eyed flies, ...

— Adventures of a Young Naturalist • Lucien Biart

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