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• n  delight in another person's misfortune

• High heels, slippery surfaces and long dresses make the runway a dangerous place for models and a discount rack of schadenfreude for everyone else.
• If it weren't for the schadenfreude you expect with each turn of the page, the pictures would be called "charming.
• Pity and envy are involved; desire and revulsion; fear and sometimes schadenfreude.

• Schadenfreude

News & Articles

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• Need Something To Do Thursday?
  When it comes to Schadenfreude, it can be tough to tell if the queasy feeling in your stomach is one of sadistic pleasure or a spasm of empathy. In the case of a flesh-reddening belly flop, hearing the smack of skin on water is pure sadism.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  June 13, 2013 - Boise Weekly

Quotes

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• Michelle Malkin in TIME
  A columnist at the conservative New York Post called for Letterman's immediate firing, and pundit Michelle Malkin said on Fox News, "It's hard not to have a smidge of schadenfreude for somebody who's shown contempt for women in public .........
• Robin Lakoff in San Jose Mercury News
  You can see who looks ridiculous, so there is a little Schadenfreude in it,UC's Lakoff said. "When you've watched, it makes you feel like a member of society."
• Bill Watters in Globe and Mail
  About Saskin's recent departure from the NHLPA, Watters said on AM640 Toronto this week: "I'm in a state of schadenfreude."