The phrase "object of jealousy" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to someone or something that is envied or coveted by others. Example: "Her new car became the object of jealousy among her friends, who all wished they had one too."
That's why having a car, especially the highly coveted Volga, was a point of pride for the owners and the object of jealousy for others.
It was an ethic of honour, which made virtues of pride and of jealousy the inspiration of great deeds and which accepted it as natural that one would be the object of jealousy or of enmity.
But it is the expansive outdoors, mountain views and fine climate (except in August, when you could fry a hot dog at the Rose Bowl) that still make Pasadena, the famed City of Roses, a shining jewel of Southern California and an enduring object of jealousy.
Justine Waddell is Van Helsing's estranged daughter, whose small quotient of vampire blood (through her father via the leeches) makes her the ultimate apple of Dracula's eye and an object of jealousy among his many female victims who, once liberated from human life, turn into foul-mouthed, bloodthirsty sex fiends.
I am fit, but not too fit, and am a robust 5'7½" tall, a height which, as it is just above the national average, will give me an air of leadership, but, being only slightly above that norm, will not mark me as an object of jealousy to my companions.
Amis was the object of extraordinary jealousy in his youth, when his star was in the ascendant.
But even in today's era of European integration (for which the European Union has just won the Nobel peace prize), railways are objects of national jealousy.
Desdemona, fictional character, the wife of Othello and the object of his unwarranted jealousy, in William Shakespeare's tragic drama Othello (written 1603 04).
But when you're the object of ire and jealousy, the apt response is to flash teeth and snarl a bit.
Famed for both brilliance and arrogance, Dr. Gould was the object of admiration and jealousy, both revered and reviled by colleagues.
Statistics like that do not disclose anything about how much money the firm is taking in, but they do explain why Milberg Weiss has been a lightning rod for politicians' criticisms of plaintiff lawyers and the object of its rivals' jealousy.
