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The malicious joy of watching or hearing about an audacious fraud unravel.
Reading, listening or watching anything to do with Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos gives me such schadenfraud.
The Fyre documentary was pure schadenfraud.
by thwartmanteau March 02, 2019
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Running for exercise and picking up trash you find along the way. It's good for the body, mind, soul, and environment! Started in Sweden but is making its way to the U. S.
It's nice out and the city is filthy. Let's go plogging!
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noun.

someone pretending to derive pleasure from other's misfortune to fit in with their douchebag friends, but really they feel just awful about it.
Jeremy was laughing with his buddies at the video of skaters wiping out, but he was a schadenfraud, because inside he was horrified by the carnage.
by Bobakalacka March 30, 2017
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Pleasure derived from the minor irritation or annoyance of others.
Person A: Dude, why are you slow rolling me?
Person B: I don't know, I guess I just have a mean streak of of Schadenfraud
by Sick Variance November 07, 2010
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When you’re happy when something bad happens to President Trump.
My schadenfraud was off the charts on President Trump contracted COVID-19.
by GF Logic October 06, 2020
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#SchadenfraudSyndrome. That feeling that you're smarter than someone suffering from the consequences of their own actions, while knowing it's only a matter of time before you're castigated for your own.

See also "Impostor Syndrome"

The downside of #Schadenfreude.
"She laughed at Trumps's shoes, until in a moment of sweaty schadenfraud, she realized she'd dragged a trail of soiled toilet paper all the way up the stairs."
by procrastina... June 07, 2021
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