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Vocab: Schadenfreude

Wednesday Dec 10, 2008 – by

schadenfreude \SHOD-n-froy-duh\, noun

A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.

That the report of Sebastian Imhof’s grave illness might also have been tinged with Schadenfreude appears not to have crossed Lucas’s mind.
– Steven Ozment, Flesh and Spirit

Resource: Dictionary.com

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  1. avatar Get Togetha says:
    December 11, 2008 at 1:06 am

    Yippee! We can use this word over the word “hater.”

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