Usually means: Pleasure derived from others' misfortune.
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  1. schadenfreude: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. schadenfreude: Merriam-Webster
  3. schadenfreude: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. schadenfreude: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Schadenfreude: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Schadenfreude: Vocabulary.com
  7. Schadenfreude, schadenfreude: Wordnik
  8. schadenfreude: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. schadenfreude: Wiktionary
  10. schadenfreude: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Schadenfreude: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. schadenfreude: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. schadenfreude: Dictionary.com
  14. schadenfreude: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Schadenfreude (EP), Schadenfreude (album), Schadenfreude: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Schadenfreude: Rhymezone
  17. schadenfreude: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  18. Schadenfreude: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. schadenfreude: FreeDictionary.org
  20. schadenfreude: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. schadenfreude: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. schadenfreude: Foreign Words and Phrases
  23. Schadenfreude: The Word Detective
  24. schadenfreude: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. schadenfreude: Netlingo

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  1. Schadenfreude: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. Schadenfreude: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. schadenfreude: A Word A Day
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noun:  Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.

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