Schadenfreude meaning and definition in german
Noun
Frequency: 
f (genitive Schadenfreude, no plural)
- Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune; schadenfreude.
Example
Mit wilder Schadenfreude genoß sie den Siegesjubel über ihre gebrochene Ehe.At the unexpected shock of this phrase falling on her thought like a leaden bullet on a silver plate, Emma, shuddering, raised her head in order to find out what he meant to say; and they looked at the other in silence, almost amazed to see each other, so far sundered were they by their inner thoughts. Charles gazed at her with the dull look of a drunken man, while he listened motionless to the last cries of the sufferer, that followed each other in long-drawn modulations, broken by sharp spasms like the far-off howling of some beast being slaughtered. Emma bit her wan lips, and rolling between her fingers a piece of coral that she had broken, fixed on Charles the burning glance of her eyes like two arrows of fire about to dart forth. Everything in him irritated her now; his face, his dress, what he did not say, his whole person, his existence, in fine. She repented of her past virtue as of a crime, and what still remained of it rumbled away beneath the furious blows of her pride. She revelled in all the evil ironies of triumphant adultery. The memory of her lover came back to her with dazzling attractions; she threw her whole soul into it, borne away towards this image with a fresh enthusiasm; and Charles seemed to her as much removed from her life, as absent forever, as impossible and annihilated, as if he had been about to die and were passing under her eyes.OP350934
Der Sohn sah, daß sie nicht imstande war, ein Lächeln der Schadenfreude zu unterdrücken.Her son saw that she could not repress a smile of satisfaction.OP872014
Aber er konnte auch keine rechte Schadenfreude, die diesen Namen wirklich verdient hätte, auftreiben.He could get up no exultation that was really worthy the name.OP1070101
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