Indeed, spiteful envy can stem out of several factors – Someone else’s presumed better looks, intellect, education, profession, health, talents/skills, financial/social status, etc., can all propel envy pangs. The deadly envy is such that it can even drive a person into doing some deplorable, diabolical, and dastardly things. Finally, even after all these, when this person’s efforts, to prove himself pretty superior to someone, precipitates in a pathetic fiasco, what possibly follows is the poisonous acrimony.