The joy one feels when bad things happen to other people.
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The act of deriving pleasure from someone else's misfortune.
Orgin = German: Schaden, damage (from Middle High German schade, from Old High German scado) + Freude, joy (from Middle High German vreude, from Old High German frewida, from fr, happy).
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The act of deriving pleasure from someone else's misfortune.
Orgin = German: Schaden, damage (from Middle High German schade, from Old High German scado) + Freude, joy (from Middle High German vreude, from Old High German frewida, from fr, happy).
An sense of schadenfreude came over me as I watched a Chevy Suburban with a "W" bumpersticker pull into a gas station advertising $3.89 per gallon.
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This economy's producing plenty of opportunities for Schadenfreude as Congress summons multimillion dollar CEOs to defend themselves
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Once I heard that Donald Rumsfeld had stepped down, I had a schadenfreudegasm so huge that I had to throw away my underpants.
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by Moontos November 11, 2006
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Ever since November 8, I have been watching election night coverage on CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, and The Young Turks just for the orgasmic Schadenfreude of it. Yum!
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From German, literally "Business Joy" (Schaft = business; Freud = joy).
An alternative to the more common Schadenfreude: pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune
From German, literally "Business Joy" (Schaft = business; Freud = joy).
An alternative to the more common Schadenfreude: pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune
"Manafort and Papadopoulos just got indicted. Ha ha, I'm getting some serious Schaftenfreude about the Ginger Gringo."
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-what did you feel when you found out that your successful brother had lost all his money in the stock market?
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-what did you feel when you found out that your successful brother had lost all his money in the stock market?
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