Example sentences for: schadenfreude

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

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

  • The more high-flown critics are flush with Schadenfreude at what they see as director George Lucas' fall from glory.

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

  • Of course, everyone makes mistakes, although Mr. Robertson's difficulties may inspire a bit more Schadenfreude than your ordinary, average business disaster.

  • 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."


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