"Schadenfreude is a complex emotion, where rather than feeling sympathy towards someone´s misfortune, schadenfreude evokes joyful feelings that take pleasure from watching someone fail. This emotion is displayed more in children than adults; however, adults also experience schadenfreude, though generally concealed.
It is to see or have knowledge of someone´s misfortune after the harm they have caused you. The desire to see other´s suffer. "I experienced schadenfreude after hearing that my horrible manager had been fired."
"Sarah couldn´t help but feel a bit of schadenfreude when she discovered that the man who´d stolen her car was now in prison." Schadenfreude is steadily becoming a more popular word according to Google." - (en.wikipedia.org 22.11.2019)
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