as in jealous
having or showing mean resentment of another's possessions or advantages an anonymous online review of the restaurant that looks like it may have been written by a green-eyed competitor

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Recent Examples of green-eyed Read the full Cancer Daily Horoscope Leo (July 23 - August 22) Victim of the green-eyed monster? USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024 Orozco is an artist at heart and created an image of the green-eyed mountain lioness for which the Leoncita block is named for the label of this wine. Laura Ness, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024 Supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who was married to Tom Brady from 2009 to 2022 was long seen as Public Enemy No. 1 by New England Patriots fans and green-eyed spectators. Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 11 Feb. 2024 This 57,000-acre private nature reserve is the largest in Costa Rica and home to endangered species like jaguars and green-eyed frogs. Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2023 If the playoffs were the Tour de France, the Celtics would be donning yellow leader jerseys, not green-and-white ones. Analytics models and old-fashioned oddsmakers alike see the playoffs through green-eyed glasses. Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023 His mother, a green-eyed Creole woman raised in a country town just outside of Shreveport, La., moved the family to Compton. Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023

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“Green-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/green-eyed. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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