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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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Gleemorse
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: glēmôrs
Sentence: When her rival was caught cheating Sarah felt a deep sense of gleemorse. The only thing that could make her feel better/worse would be if she had been the one to report it.
Etymology: glee (great delight) + remorse (deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed)
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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Rueglee
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ROO-glee
Sentence: Miranda was struck with rueglee over the sudden misfortune that came to her friend Louise, the woman she loves to hate.
Etymology: Blend of 'Rue' (v. to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterl and 'Glee' (n. open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation)
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COMMENTS:
wow. much better than my own. - chaok, 2012-07-19: 19:16:00
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Schuldeschadenfreude
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: shool-de-shahd-n-froi-duh
Sentence: Kathy'd thought of herself as a "mean girl" so her schuldeschadenfreude at Betty's car accident (Betty'd always flaunted that Mercedes!) was something of a shock.
Etymology: Basically a compound German word, this is based on a combination of "Schuld" (guilt) and "Schadenfreude" (pleasure at the misfortune of others) which is an already accepted, and surprisingly rarely used word in the English language.
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COMMENTS:
I schuld've known! - Alchemist, 2007-03-23: 07:40:00
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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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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
Colleagasm
Created by: coachnomad23
Pronunciation: colleague-asm
Sentence: Seeing my partners on the project get fired for messing up the presentation, gave me a colleagasm.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Colleagasm sounds like a very positive thing to me!! Love the word!!! - Stevenson0, 2007-03-23: 10:30:00
So many good words can be contrived from the "O". I keep waiting for the definition for "The point at which you become assimilated with the borg" (borgasm). - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-23: 12:18:00
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Obraguilt
Created by: chaok
Pronunciation: oh-brah-gihlt
Sentence: I felt obraguilt when I heard that my boss was fired.
Etymology: "obra-" comes from "Obratna", which, according to google translate, is macedonian for "reverse". Guilt comes from a word that means "sin, crime, fault" in old english.
Uglee
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ug + lee
Sentence: I couldn't help but feel some uglee when the boss chewed out that jerk Bob.
Etymology: ugly + glee
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