Did you perhaps mean schadenfreude?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A silk crepe used for dresses and blouses.
Etymologies
- French : crêpe, crepe + de, of + Chine, China. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As it turns out, "Gigli" is not as wretched as Madonna and Guy Ritchie's "Swept Away," but after the schadenfreudian thrill of watching beautiful people humiliate themselves wears off, it has the same annihilating effect on your will to live.”
“Except for Ponzi-schemed pipsqueaks who didn't get their money out in time, we got a schadenfreudian bang out of the downfall of such corporate three-card-monte dealers as Enron's Kenneth Lay.”
“I've known Ces for many years now, and I've always appreciated and admired her belief that joy and desire are both central to fannishness and deserve to be central to fannishness, requiring no excuses or outside validation -- but at the same time, I've never managed to become the beautiful hedonist that she is -- I blame my grim, schadenfreudian tm!”
“After my initial reactions of "OMG that's so juicy!" and the schadenfreudian "She was 'popular' and I was not, and now I live it up in NYC and she's PREGNANT in FL," I began to feel really sorry for her.”
“He laughs off the spiritual vultures eager for a death-bed conversion, and dismisses - but with unfailingly gracious courtesy - the many schadenfreudian”
“He ... dismisses - but with unfailingly gracious courtesy - the many schadenfreudian prayers for his recovery.”
“In the Nov. 1 issue of Biological Psychiatry, Simone Shamay-Tsoory of the University of Haifa and her colleagues reported that when participants in a game of chance were pitted against a player they considered arrogant, a nasal spritz of oxytocin augmented their feelings both of envy whenever the haughty one won and of schadenfreudian gloating when their opponent lost.”
“(That it could plausibly be Bobby Bowden's final regular-season game at FSU is a schadenfreudian bonus for Gator fans, who could have the rare opportunity to see off their hero and their nemesis at the same time.)”
Lists
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annscann's list
My words, generally
bavarois, bawbee, bawd, bawdry, libertine, russophobe, rubicund, gossamer, persnickety, claptrap, gesticulate, schadenfreudian and 199 more...
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The Crow Road
Words encountered while reading Iain Banks's terrific "The Crow Road"
machair, brindle, nimrod, cullen skink, lochan, the kyles of bute, kip, gateaux blaster, condign, percussive cremation, ballast mound, braw and 71 more...
Tweets
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bilby I'm dead against the emulsification of horror. Jan 25, 2009
sionnach
... to my horror (emulsified with a small amount of schadenfreudian delight, he appeared to be proposing to sing. Jan 25, 2009