schadenfreude

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Yes, I think my schadenfreude is for you.

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delight in another person's misfortune

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noun

delight in another person's misfortune

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for schadenfreude.

noun

delight in another person's misfortune

Example sentences

Yes, I think my schadenfreude is for you.

Yes, if I have any schadenfreude here it's not for him.

So, while the schadenfreude in me wishes this were true, I seriously doubt it.

It's wrong, but the potential of schadenfreude is very tempting.

Thought you'd all enjoy the schadenfreude, and perhaps learn from my example: "How to ignore Sam Altman and lose more than half your money.

You might get more schadenfreude that way, but it'd be much more effective to spend that money on lobbyists and organization that worked on changing the law.

Hard not to enjoy the schadenfreude of a company begging developers to support web standards after holding the entire web hostage for years due to outright cynical negligence.

This may be schadenfreude, but as someone who's been around the web a long time, it really tickles me to see Microsoft have to fake their user agent string to get around an arbitrary browser restriction.

Only recently did they have to give some ground with a piece about how commercial space was "already having benefits" now that the launch is so near, and I was overjoyed with schadenfreude when they had to provide neutral coverage of the uninteresting and everyday fact that Space Station astronauts were rehearsing for SpaceX's visit to the station.