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Delight in another’s misfortune
Answer for the clue "Delight in another’s misfortune ", 13 letters:
schadenfreude
Alternative clues for the word schadenfreude
- Delight in the misfortune of others
- Taking joy from another's misfortune
- (German) delight in another person's misfortune
- Malicious pleasure in the misfortunes of others
- Cheers undead on the move around France, enjoying the victims' plight
- Enjoyment of others' woes
- Perverse pleasure in South African country having a dodgy referendum after scrapping borders
- Guilty pleasure?
Word definitions for schadenfreude in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Schadenfreude is an EP released by the Australian noise rock band Lubricated Goat , released in May 1989 by Black Eye Records.
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.