jealously

comparative more jealously · superlative most jealously

1. In a jealous manner.

   "[…] I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance?" replied his companion, something jealously.

   1822, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 277

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   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.

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 53–54

   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.

   1897, George Meredith, One of Our Conquerors, Complete

   Another friend was present while I was there, veteran criminal defense attorney William J. Brennan, jealously guarding an SUV full of memorabilia he’d purchased, including a Rizzo fedora and walking stick, the former of which he told me he hoped Rizzo was wearing during the famous “crumb bum” exchange with television reporter Stan Bohrman.

   2019 January 3, Michael Smerconish, “The Nixon letter I can’t forget”, in CNN, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2021

   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.

   2020 February 23, Francisco Guzman, Brian Ries, “A YouTuber’s fancy Bali vacation sure looked nice. Nope, the photos were taken in an Ikea”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2022