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Shockenfreude 

The feeling you get when you realize that the things you laugh and joke about with one social group you associate with would be found horrifying by another
I really laughed at the San Luis Obispo Public Service Announcement on PedoBear, then realized I was committing Shockenfreude
Shockenfreude by BD1234567 September 14, 2010
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Shockenfreude 

Humor and amusement derived by a topic that others find horrifying.
John received such a feeling of shockenfreude when he learned about the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's department's public safety bulletin on Pedobear.
Shockenfreude by Coriform September 14, 2010

Shockenfreude 

The feeling you get when you realize that the things you laugh and joke about with one social group you associate with would be found horrifying by another.
Pedobear makes me laugh. I'm plagued with shockenfreude.
Shockenfreude by Supervisor 194 September 14, 2010

stockenfreude 

The pleasure you derive from watching a stock drop in price after you've sold it.
John: Wow, I'm so glad I sold that XYZ stock -- it's fallen 10% in the week since I dumped it.

Mary: You've got a case of stockenfreude.
stockenfreude by stockenfreude April 9, 2012

Stockenfreude 

The gleeful feeling you get when a stock you sold goes down in price after you sold it.
Look at that smirk on Jenny's face -- she sold her Microsoft stock at $325, and now it's $250. Yeah, she's experiencing stockenfreude.
Stockenfreude by ibiwisi1 January 14, 2022

Stealthie 

when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.

This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"

FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
Stealthie by gwenhyfar October 2, 2016
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