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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.
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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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Sadisposition
Created by: juliar
Pronunciation: say-dis-puh-si-shun
Sentence: I had a feeling of greatest sadisposition when my co-worker, Betty, broke her leg.
Etymology: sadism+despise
Vooblue
Created by: Sissyphus
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Martin lost his job because of the fight we had when he was working... in a way I feel bad, but the vooblue is leading me towards a celebratory drink..
Etymology:
Karmahap
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: kar-mah-hap
Sentence: When Tish found out that her ex-boss Larry broke his neck while skiing, she felt such overwhelming karmahap that she actually wrote something kind in his well card, despite the fact that when she worked for him years ago he repeatedly told her she was fat and had body odor.
Etymology: karma + happy
Dupliciglee
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: doo/pli/si/glee
Sentence: She 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:
I really want to condolight with you on the success of this word ;-) - petaj, 2007-03-25: 04:01:00
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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)
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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Kooney
Created by: ABunnell
Pronunciation:
Sentence: You know you were kooney when she got fired.
Etymology:
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