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Taking joy from another's misfortune
Answer for the clue "Taking joy from another's misfortune ", 13 letters:
schadenfreude
Alternative clues for the word schadenfreude
- Delight in another’s misfortune
- Malicious pleasure in the misfortunes of others
- Perverse pleasure in South African country having a dodgy referendum after scrapping borders
- Characters in NHS, red-faced, upset about EU enjoying misfortune
- (German) delight in another person's misfortune
- Enjoyment of others' woes
- Delight in the misfortune of others
Word definitions for schadenfreude in dictionaries
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 ...
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.
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.