"Was it the simple jealousy of others which your thoughts reveal to me?"
Theophilus' motivation for pursuing a deal with the devil is simple jealousy.
Which was simple jealousy, and petty of him.
Yet Iago has more than simple jealousy on his mind, and he's not the only character in the play to be infected by jealousy's sting.
I think in fact some of her hostility to us is due to nothing more abstract than simple jealousy.
He attributed the egg-throwing and other episodes to simple jealousy.
But he obviously dismissed the companion's thought as simple jealousy.
Part of it, I think, was simple jealousy.
Perhaps it was just simple female jealousy.
He at last decided that it was simple jealousy, and, being such, had to be cauterized.