Schadenfreude
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈʃɑːdənˌfrɔɪdə/
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Schadenfreude
- But they feel schadenfreude the most when they see someone experience a misfortune who's similar to themselves.
I always get my schadenfreude when I watch him fail.
- I always get my schadenfreude when I watch him fail.
- Goodness knows that I do get my schadenfreude Glee when I watch narcissistic people go down.
- Germans have got a quote called schadenfreude, which stands for taking pleasure in other People's pain.
- Then it is about schadenfreude, or being happy when something bad happens to the person that you envy.
- But they feel schadenfreude the most when they see someone experience a misfortune who's similar to themselves.
- It's kind of like, yeah, the schadenfreude of of, of all of that.
- And I've, I've wrote about it in human nature where we're all aware of the, of this, of the what we call schadenfreude.
- I'm just walking schadenfreude, you know I'm what I always say is and for, and I'll answer the second part of your question first.
Examples
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Many people experience schadenfreude when their rivals fail.
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I came out of it laughing and ODing on schadenfreude thanks to MSNBC (especially Chris Matthews' epic meltdown).
Blog text (7) -
Now I know what schadenfreude feels like.
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But what a wonderful day of schadenfreude for me and others.
Blog text (32) -
I always get my schadenfreude when I watch him fail.
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Not to mention the schadenfreude of watching an arrogant person destroy himself.
Blog text (26) -
Witnessing this calamity was one of the happiest moments of my life: an incomparably sweet instance of Schadenfreude.
Academic text (1998) -
Watching her opponent struggle brought him a sense of schadenfreude.
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He felt a wave of schadenfreude as he witnessed his colleague's embarrassing mistake.
Synonyms
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4.4
A feeling of pleasure at another person's misfortune
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7.7
A feeling of pleasure at someone else's bad luck
Antonyms
How Pleased
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Schadenfreude comes from German words Schaden 'damage' and Freude 'joy'. It literally means 'joy at damage', so it describes the pleasure you feel at someone else's bad luck.