Crossword-Solution: SCHADENFREUDE
We have 12 clues for the answer “SCHADENFREUDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Delight in another's misfortune | 1 answer |
| Delight in the misfortune of others | 1 answer |
| Literally, "harm joy" | 1 answer |
| MALICIOUS enjoyment of misfortunes of others | 1 answer |
| Pleasure felt at the misfortune of another | 1 answer |
| Pleasure in another's misfortune | 1 answer |
| Word that means "glee felt on hearing that something bad has happened to someone else" (13) | 1 answer |
| enjoyment gained from others' troubles | 1 answer |
| malicious enjoyment | 1 answer |
| Guilty pleasure | 2 answers |
| DELIGHT IN ANOTHER PERSON'S MISFORTUNE | 11 answers |
| good cheer | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SCHADENFREUDE (5)
The particular sentiment described in German as "Schadenfreude," "pleasure over another's troubles" (how characteristic it is that there should be no equivalent in any other language for this peculiarly Teutonic emotion!), makes but little appeal to the average Briton except where questions of age and of failing powers come into play, and obviously this only applies to men: no lady ever grows old for those who are really fond of her; one always sees her as one likes best to think of her.
With barely concealed and gleeful schadenfreude, the Russians said that the Enron scandal undermined their confidence in Western accountants and the GAAP.
But the United States would be mistaken to indulge in Schadenfreude or to gleefully assume that it has finally succeeded in isolating the insolent French and the somnolent Germans.
Behold the rampant Schadenfreude which accompanied the antitrust case against the predatory but loaded Microsoft.
For we are not only told in the Lives that "The Athenians bore a grudge against him," and that "he lost patience with the ill-will of his fellow-citizens," but one of our earliest witnesses, Philodemus, says that when he left Athens he did so "in grief, because almost all in Athens were rejoicing over him." The word used means, like the German "Schadenfreude," rejoicing at another's injury.
Quotes with SCHADENFREUDE (3)
Rumours should be juicy and gossips must be mouth-watering, since they have to uplift and make people feel better. Tittle-tattle can have a swift ripple effect and when the ball is rolling very fast, it kick-starts a flood of moral destruction. “Schadenfreude” can, then, be fully enjoyed. (“Juicy rumours”)
When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.
Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived from the misfortune of others’? Schadenfreude.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Newsday, NY Sun.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2006–2023).