Taking really, REALLY immense delight in the misfortune of some loathesome person-likecreature. Well beyond garden-variety schadenfreude, a case of schadenboner lasting beyond four hours means the tumescent owner must seek medical attention.
The final exposure of Dan Rather as a failshit partisan back in 2004 gave me a 3-hour schadenboner..at least.
German word, original translation loosely comes out as 'malicious joy'. In English, it's thought of 'malicious enjoyment from the suffering of another'. As there is no succinct English version of the word, English-speaking peoples have approximated this word and use it whenever they see peoplelike corrupt CEOs get dragged off to jail.
Did you see that look on Fastow's face as he was told he couldn't take soap-on-a-rope to the lockup? Man, I felt a warm, comforting sense of schadenfreude in my gut when I saw it...
(n): the climactic pleasureone feels while seeing something terrible happen to another human being. A portmanteu of schadenfreude and orgasm. Particularly exemplified over reviled celebrities.
When LeBron James and the Miami Heat lost the 2011 NBA finals, all of Cleveland reached a schadenfreudegasm.
Fans of Keith Olbermann are whining so painfully, and Osama Bin Laden suffered from ghastly kidney failure until his blood was diluted with urine, and thus I exhibit dual schadenboners.