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Characters in NHS, red-faced, upset about EU enjoying misfortune
Answer for the clue "Characters in NHS, red-faced, upset about EU enjoying misfortune ", 13 letters:
schadenfreude
Alternative clues for the word schadenfreude
- Cheers undead on the move around France, enjoying the victims' plight
- Enjoyment of others' woes
- Guilty pleasure?
- Enjoyment of another's pain
- Perverse pleasure in South African country having a dodgy referendum after scrapping borders
- Taking joy from another's misfortune
- Delight in another’s misfortune
- Delight in the troubles of others
Word definitions for schadenfreude in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"malicious joy in the misfortunes of others," 1922, German Schadenfreude , literally "damage-joy," from schaden "damage, harm, injury" (see scathe ) + freude , from Old High German frewida "joy," from fro "happy," literally "hopping for joy," from Proto-Germanic ...
Usage examples of schadenfreude.
Cartesian theater: but he can still spare some schadenfreude for the family fortunes.
With rare schadenfreude, Wexford found himself hoping Grey would get off.
Things could be brought into being that had no name in English-Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichreit, Vergangenheitsbewaltigung.
Holy Trinity not without a little schadenfreude, stepped into the moonlight.