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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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Hoorayaculpa
Created by: Mobelia
Pronunciation: Hah Ray A Cul Pa
Sentence: When my friend cried on my shoulder about her lecherous boyfriend ending their relationship I couldn't help but feel a little hoorayaculpa.
Etymology: Hooray as in I am SO happy I am cheering and Mea Culpa Latin for "my bad" a guilty little apology for lack of decorum.
Comradenfreude
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kom rad enn froy deh
Sentence: She wouldn't admit to comradenfreude, but found herself humming "another on bites the dust" as her ex colleague made her tearful farewells
Etymology: comrade, schadenfreude
Sympaglee
Created by: ShaggE
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "I felt a bit of sympaglee when the guy who kept stealing my pens was fired."
Etymology: Sympathy+ Glee
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COMMENTS:
Good word! Totally understandable without a Verbotomy dictionary. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-23: 14:30:00
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Pityheehee
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: pit-ee-hee-hee
Sentence: The size of her evil boss's bonus compared to her own meagre income was such that she only felt pityheehee when he was made redundant.
Etymology: pity (feeling of sympathy and compassion) + hee hee (laughter)
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COMMENTS:
unLaoise'd a monster :) - galwaywegian, 2011-02-01: 11:51:00
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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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Schadenfraud
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: shawd-en-frawd
Sentence: When the guy who dumped her wound up on the front page for his incredible feat of having fallen out a third story window and barely survived, Mimi, who was invited to his funeral, was incredibly overcome with shadenfraud when she had to play nice to his friends and family.
Etymology: fraud (fake, deceiving) + schadenfreude (german for happiness at the misfortune of others -- something we are all guilty of)
Regretaspitlicious
Created by: mana1066
Pronunciation: re-gret-a-spit-lish-us
Sentence: Trying to hide my regretaspitlicious smile, i shook his hand as he left the office.
Etymology: regretfully + spite +delicious
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COMMENTS:
dunno why i wanted to add delicious in there. - mana1066, 2007-03-27: 00:20:00
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Voodoolicious
Created by: Tanik
Pronunciation: voo-do-li-sh-iss
Sentence: Man, this moment is voodoolicious. He totally deserved that dressing down.
Etymology: voodoo + delicious
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COMMENTS:
I like it! - wordmeister, 2008-06-17: 06:19:00
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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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Culpabiliglee
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kulp a bili glee
Sentence: Faith could hardly suppress her culpabiliglee when her boss fired Edwin for sexual harrassment. She had hated the guy from day one, especially since he had failed to find her attractive and ask her out. Her manipulations and far-fetched victim's tale had finally forced her boss to remove her enemy.
Etymology: Culpability (state of guilt) & Glee (malicious satisfaction)
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