Example sentences for: schadenfreude

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

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

  • Bitch, Bitch, Bitch: I've always been grateful to Elizabeth Wurtzel for teaching me the meaning of the word Schadenfreude . It was a concept that came up a lot in the days immediately following Tina Brown's installation as editor at The New Yorker , as many journalists of my acquaintance gleefully counted down the moments until Wurtzel was deposed as pop music critic.

  • 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."


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