joneses in English

noun

1

a person's neighbors or social equals.

I'm not sure which is the more amusing, though: neighbours twitching curtains to spy on the Joneses next door, or the antics of otherwise respectable citizens who view their insurance contracts as a better bet than the lottery.

noun

1

a fixation on or compulsive desire for someone or something, typically a drug; an addiction.

a two-year amphetamine jones

verb

1

have a fixation on; be addicted to.

Palmer was jonesing for some coke again

Use "joneses" in a sentence

1. Many people were holding down three jobs just to keep up with the Joneses.

2. Synonyms for Appetencies include appetite, cravings, desire, drives, hankerings, hunger, itches, joneses, letches and longings

3. The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses.

4. The condescension can not be denied: look at how hard the poor chaps strive to keep up with the nuclear Joneses.

5. At this time he changed his middle name from Lincoln to Lloyd in honor of his mother's family, the Lloyd Joneses.

6. Her pronounced Bookishness was a cause of mild consternation for the Joneses, who, though scrupulous when it came to linguistic decorum, "were far from intellectual "Interested in Big Things, and Happy in Small Ways": Curiosity in Edith Wharton