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How to use schadenfreude in a sentence

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With every reverse, or seeming reverse, that the Americans suffer, the schadenfreude in Germany reaches new heights, or depths.
It would take some black-hearted schadenfreude to gloat over the comedian's 75-second quickie divorce from his 18-month civil partnership.
Too often their misfortunes are met with glee, a schadenfreude that is quite horrifying.
This, on the other hand, is just pure mean-spirited snark, the more so as it invites us to feel political schadenfreude over geniune tragedy.
Our fascination with ostensibly harmless hoaxes stems, perhaps, from admiration for the ingenuity of the pranksters, combined with schadenfreude towards the duped.
Rubber-necking was, too, of course, along with that universal German vice, schadenfreude.
If you, like me, are one of those people who get a frisson of schadenfreude whenever critics whet their wordsmithery on a film they resent having to watch, I strongly recommend reading through the negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Russians have no reason to feel any schadenfreude as a result of the difficulties faced by NATO and the United States in Afghanistan.
Across the aisle, France's majority Socialist Party has restrained its schadenfreude.
There was no shortage of schadenfreude, with Democrats joyfully noting just how dumb those silly, delusional Republicans were.
After having the issue taken away from them in 2012, their schadenfreude has been epic.
That is why those talking with schadenfreude because the Constitution is dead need to tell us how they will meet these challenges under the present circumstances.
I know schadenfreude isn't the most pleasant of concepts, but she really does come across as a deeply unpleasant human being.
These works treat the Middle Ages as risible and express not a small degree of what the Germans term schadenfreude.
On Twitter, I've already been accused of schadenfreude over the death of News Corp's soon-to-die, paywalled, tablet-only, once-a-day news venture called The Daily.
Perhaps they even felt some schadenfreude.
In reaction to the regime's schadenfreude over the UK riots, the top British diplomat in Tehran, Jane Marriott, wrote a letter to Iran's foreign ministry saying Britain would be happy to talk about human rights.
Untranslatable words, especially from big widely used languages, usually migrate untranslated: panache and schadenfreude are now English words, le weekend and das Briefing are embedded in French and German.
It gives me no schadenfreude to say, it looks like the latter.
His natural taste was for the comedy of violence and schadenfreude, and he took pride in having devised the moment in which Cleese gives Andrew Sachs's Manuel a sharp blow to the forehead with a dessert spoon.
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Bertha guesses its contents and revels in the luxury of pity and schadenfreude.
The curious and expressive German word schadenfreude cannot be translated into any other language.
There was much schadenfreude in the business press this week as three capitalist titans were forced to eat humble pie.
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