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DEFINITION: n. A mixture of delight and guilt felt when a colleague, whom you despise, suffers a misfortune. v. To feel bad about feeling good when something bad happens to someone who is definitely not good.
Verboticisms
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Maltriumph
Created by: WindingRoad
Pronunciation: MAL-trahy-uhmf
Sentence: Betty squirmed with maltriumph upon hearing about Greg's demotion.
Etymology: Mal (from L malignus [bad]) + triumph (from ME triumphe [victory])
Dupliciglee
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: do/pliss/i/glee
Sentence: Sally had a difficult time hiding her dupliciglee when the office know it all got the boot.
Etymology: duplicity + glee (deceitful happiness)
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COMMENTS:
Best of the day! - Mustang, 2008-06-16: 19:22:00
good one - Nosila, 2008-06-16: 19:32:00
Enchanting words: it dances before your eyes. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-17: 02:50:00
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Yippeevil
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: yip-ee-vul
Sentence: after he finished his happy dance he couldn't help but feel a little yippeevil
Etymology: yippee, evil
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COMMENTS:
sounds a bit like Hoorateful - petaj, 2007-03-23: 03:12:00
I think his dance was the pox trot. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-23: 05:49:00
followed by the tangotohell.. - rikboyee, 2007-03-24: 01:41:00
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Gladdist
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: glad-dist
Sentence: When Jenny's boyfriend dumped her, she was sad. When he started going out with her best friend, she was mad. But when they accidentally got sprayed by skunk which she had hidden under the front seat of his car, she was gladdist.
Etymology: glad+ sadist
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-16: 12:31:00
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Happity
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: hap-pity
Sentence: Lucy was overcome with happityness when her nemesis, Brittany, fell face down on the 50 yard line in front of the whole school and broke her tiara. On one hand, it was terrible that someone sabotaged the float she was riding on. On the other hand, just because she was the homecoming queen, head cheerleader, class president, valedictorian, pretty, popular and dating Brad the quarterback -- who did she think she was, anyway?
Etymology: happy (happiness) + pity
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COMMENTS:
Chuckle! - splendiction, 2009-10-09: 22:02:00
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Trainwreckspotter
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: TRAIN rek spot er
Sentence: Jordan's last ditch effort to please the clients would fail badly. They were not impressed with her cheap plastic advertising pens that glowed in the dark. In fact her ad plan turned out to be a complete disaster when the pens didn't glow but instead leaked. Normally Jordan teamed up with Sass and they would share their strengths. This time Jordan greedily went solo - searching glory - while Sass moped around waiting for another bid. She secretly knew Jordan couldn't go it alone successfully - Jordan lacked judgement! Jordan's clients began to lose interest and backed away from the big job (which could have brought in much needed big profits for the company). Instead of helping, her jealous colleague Sass trainwreckspotted Jordan get the boot.
Etymology: From: trainspotter and trainwreck.
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COMMENTS:
Talk about derailment...good word! - Nosila, 2009-10-09: 23:05:00
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Sufferfun
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: suffer fun
Sentence: after what has happened, i have sufferfun
Etymology: from suffering an fun.
Congratudegradations
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: con/grat/u/deg/rah/day/shuns
Sentence: Congratudegradations on your transfer to the unemployment line - hope you have a nice trip
Etymology: congratulations + degradation
Condolight
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: con-dole-ite
Sentence: Kerry was conflicted when her nemesis was infected with anthrax. She visited her in hospital to condolight with her.
Etymology: condole (express sympathy) + delight (pleasure)
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COMMENTS:
very nice Petaj - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-23: 11:05:00
great word!! - porsche, 2007-03-23: 14:58:00
Inspired by Jane Austen - all those in Meriton who wanted to condole with the Bennetts while revelling in the juicy gossip about Lydia's elopement. - petaj, 2007-03-25: 04:12:00
Oh... And here I was looking for the Rice ref..(Condi, not Anne...:-) - Alchemist, 2007-03-25: 09:33:00
a word you might find in a Jasper Fforde novel - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-26: 09:06:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Discoveria.
Thank you Discoveria! ~ James
Discoveria - 2007-03-23: 10:56:00
That was quick...
ErWenn - 2007-03-23: 10:56:00
Don't really know how to top schuldeshadenfreude here.
mplsbohemian - 2007-03-24: 22:20:00
The trouble is that there is a word for this in English: schadenfreude.
Discoveria - 2007-03-26: 12:07:00
I've been told already. catgrin and James decided that schadenfreude refers to the satisfaction, and this verboticism refers to feeling guilt over having that satisfaction.
Hey mplsbohemian, Alchemist summed it up nicely with etymology for Guiltenfreude: "schadenfreude (pleasure at the misfortune of others) with guilt."
Today's definition was suggested by Discoveria. Thank you Discoveria. ~ James