Example sentences for: schadenfreude

How can you use “schadenfreude” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While local newspaper coverage has generally been self-pitying, the comfortably faraway New York Times responded with Schadenfreude , likening the Northwest's woes to biblical plagues ("We finally got our natural disaster, as if it were coming to us," conceded a Seattle coffee server) and reporting that "some Northwesterners" confess to a "sheltered, even slightly wimpy quality in their approach to the extremes of nature."

  • Schadenfreude being the house religion of the New York magazine world, this has been a particularly satisfying week for glossy mag writers and editors.

  • There can, admittedly, be a bitterly Schadenfreude quality to some of it, for theirs is a hard life.

  • A piece tinged with Schadenfreude says that Starbucks may be growing too fast.

  • DEPARTMENT OF GROVELING: Bill McMichael e-mails about a Chatterbox item speculating that Gary Hart must be happy at Clinton's troubles: "That was a very cheap shot against Hart, and my guess is that he is gloomy over the whole mess, not experiencing any schadenfreude."


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast