How To Use Schadenfreude In A Sentence

  • With a quiver of delightful Schadenfreude, it turned out none had ever backed the PR firm's campaign.
  • The 17th century European enterprise of selling and buying tickets to gawk at those confined to psychiatric institutions established there was money to be made from Schadenfreude.
  • Here is an example of the service with the German word 'schadenfreude' (click to enlarge): Google will translate for you
  • Too often their misfortunes are met with glee, a schadenfreude that is quite horrifying.
  • Daily Schadenfreude "award," having previously been "honored" for employing illegal immigrants at his home the very first DS award and for flip-flopping like a pinfish on a dock over gay rights. Today's Daily Schadenfreude
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  • Mets fans experiencing schadenfreude at Nova should note that the list of hittable pitchers also includes Mike Pelfrey, who throws about as hard as Nova's 91.7 mph average fastball. Yankees' Nova Is the Most Hittable Pitcher in Baseball
  • Our fascination with ostensibly harmless hoaxes stems, perhaps, from admiration for the ingenuity of the pranksters, combined with schadenfreude towards the duped.
  • They should remember one of Germany's untranslatable gifts to the English language: schadenfreude.
  • Schadenfreude, a German word that has been adopted by the Anglo-Saxon press, means to take pleasure in the misfortune of others. The Moderate Voice
  • There is a thin line between Schadenfreude, which I take to be measured satisfaction in the discomfiture of opponents, and the sin of morose delectation.
  • And do we have an ambivalent fascination with them--awe at their accomplishments and disgust at their misdeeds, an antonymous schadenfreude, as it were--that somehow enables us to justify our failure to achieve in the way they have? She's the Boss
  • I have always been curious about the German word schadenfreude which is such a perfect translation of a Chinese proverb - xing zai le huo (幸灾乐祸). Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China
  • But it is pleasing (in a mean-spirited schadenfreude way) when people who were terrible in high school end up in boring, unrewarding jobs. More Honest Scrapping « Tales from the Reading Room
  • (Surveys, lab experiments, and brain readings all show that, for better or worse, schadenfreude is a powerful psychological force: at any fixed level of income, people are happier when the income of others is reduced.) How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America
  • But it is pleasing (in a mean-spirited schadenfreude way) when people who were terrible in high school end up in boring, unrewarding jobs. More Honest Scrapping « Tales from the Reading Room
  • I couldn't resist a touch of Schadenfreude when he was defeated so heavily in the election.
  • I couldn't resist a touch of Schadenfreude when he was defeated so heavily in the election.
  • Allow me to savour this moment of Schadenfreude.
  • Watching it, I was torn between schadenfreude - this couldn't happen to a nicer fella - and toe-curling embarrassment.
  • This, on the other hand, is just pure mean-spirited snark, the more so as it invites us to feel political schadenfreude over geniune tragedy.
  • We all like to call the old German clogger Schadenfreude off the bench from time to time.
  • Its failure to find favour with a publisher will no doubt excite schadenfreude in a few hearts. Times, Sunday Times
  • The U.S. State Department has no comment but officials privately confess to a certain "schadenfreude" at Chinese difficulties.
  • All this is a bonus for the former BBC royal correspondent, who admits to a frisson of Schadenfreude when watching her replacement shiver outside those crested gates.
  • But skittishness about affirmative action does not begin to explain the degree of Schadenfreude on display over Raines's resignation.
  • Schadenfreude's Fleur de Lis earrings (I mean come on - * Fleur* ya know?) Fashion World of SL
  • Other than continuing to bang on Jenn, I'm unclear on the point of continuing to drag this thread out (unless schadenfreude is the only thing remaining, which isn't either helpful or sporting). GUEST POST: Jennifer Brissett Weighs in on the Writer Pay Rate Flap
  • A teasing highlight of the book comes in a parenthetical aside, when Kipnis notes that psychologists have found that schadenfreude is always most potent in areas of what they call 'self-relevance.' Laura Kipnis's "How to Become a Scandal," reviewed by Ellen McCarthy
  • The U.S. State Department has no comment but officials privately confess to a certain "schadenfreude" at Chinese difficulties.
  • Over on ITV, presenter Adrian Chiles was full of it; Schadenfreude, that is, with a touch of Angst and a sprinkling of Weltschmerz thrown in. Sky, ITV and my daughter all agree: Barcelona are quite good | Martin Kelner
  • It would take some black-hearted schadenfreude to gloat over the comedian's 75-second quickie divorce from his 18-month civil partnership.
  • Schadenfreude -- a German word for glee over the misfortune of others -- is actually as American as casino gambling. The Fame Game: Why Everyone's Gloating
  • With every reverse, or seeming reverse, that the Americans suffer, the schadenfreude in Germany reaches new heights, or depths.
  • It is this sort of nonsense that makes the whole world get to grip with the term schadenfreude whitout really disliking the brits, England claim they invented football but it is long gone since they can dictate who or were the game is to be played. Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
  • This unremitting focus on just one race participant is understandable, but the hint of Schadenfreude in the tone was unmistakable.
  • In this one, she writes about her favorite word, the German word "schadenfreude," and raises a question about its relation to Detroit. Freep.com - RSS
  • Is it possible, given the Schadenfreude around his demise, that even if he were innocent, none of us would care?
  • If it's ‘all a game,’, then why is he no longer even interested in reading the newspaper for his daily dose of Schadenfreude?
  • In particular, it ignores those emotions which involve higher cognitive processes, such as jealousy, envy, and Schadenfreude.
  • Schadenfreude is an unvirtuous emotion of which we should be ashamed.
  • The schadenfreuder in me wants to watch Rudy Giuiliani's campaign fall apart like one of Wyle E. Coyote's RoadRunner chasin 'machines, so Rudy's just left there all alone and looking stupid for a second before he crashes to the ground. Novak To McCain: Compete In Iowa, Or Lose
  • Their deepest feelings about banks, whatever they may be, will be rewarded by a good double strength shot of Schadenfreude.
  • Even more entertaining is that some of these accounts are years old and are still updated, usually serving no purpose other than to serve up a healthy dose of schadenfreude. Fake Twitter accounts and the American politician: A love story
  • Schadenfreude - a German word meaning 'pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune'. Schadenfreude
  • With that in mind, I present to you Great Moments in Sports Schadenfreude.
  • How ironic that a German footballer should provide us with sport's finest example of Schadenfreude.
  • Madam, – Patrick Skene Catling, in reviewing the book of the day, Splendour & Squalor, states that “Schadenfreude is a German word with no one-word English equivalent”. English Schadenfreude
  • Fran, in particular, is a monstrous delight; watching her being shorn of her lousy dreadlocks was laugh-out-loud schadenfreude television.
  • I am at one with the European press, whose expressions of Schadenfreude in place of human sympathy are laid out here by the BBC.
  • Its failure to find favour with a publisher will no doubt excite schadenfreude in a few hearts. Times, Sunday Times
  • The web has always been a dumping group for the glibbest and grossest kinds of schadenfreude. Claire Gordon: The Gift of Money
  • I couldn't resist a touch of Schadenfreude when he was defeated so heavily in the election.
  • That is because the viewers have changeless, timeless needs that candid camera shows provide an answer for -- whether it's basic malicious joy, schadenfreude (pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others), the feeling that our daily life can become a joke (whatever this is), candid camera shows supply it. Omri Marcus: Why TV Genres Never Really Die
  • I couldn't resist a touch of Schadenfreude when he was defeated so heavily in the election.
  • The Schadenfreude is indecent, but the confident historical assertion is still less justified.
  • From that time on, we have seen most of our allies stand aside and engage in Schadenfreude over our painful bog-down in the region.
  • The one that pops to mind is "schadenfreude" - the German word that means, pleasure in the mishap coming to a friend. Why Read?
  • Actually, the amount of Schadenfreude from every quarter - from the rich, from the poor, from the arts establishment, from the ignorant - has been overwhelming.
  • Schadenfreude is German for pleasure at another's misfortune. A Disproportionate Life

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