Verboticism: Remirth
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.
Remirth
Created by: mcpuffersons
Pronunciation: re-murth
Sentence: Jane was filled with remirth when she found that John hadn't gotten the promotion he had wanted.
Etymology: remorse + mirth.
Points: 347
Comments: Remirth
petaj - 2007-03-25: 04:15:00
Maybe all that emotion was brought on by her terrible lisp.