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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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Gleeguilt
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: glee guilt
Sentence: Francis was terrible for suffering gleeguilt.
Etymology: from glee and guilt.
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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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
Sadissfaction
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: sa-diss-faction
Sentence: I really didn't mean for her to literally "break a leg" on stage, so I was overcome with sadissfaction when I saw her in a cast and using crutches.
Etymology: sad, diss, satisfaction
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COMMENTS:
I feel unworthy! - galwaywegian, 2007-03-23: 06:39:00
As a masochactor I enjoyed it - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-23: 11:02:00
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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)
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)
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])
Blissfortune
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: blisfôrchən
Sentence: Marcia moved ahead because of the blissfortune of others. She tried her best to feel pity when her arch rival Tom accidentally sent a scathing e-mail to the boss but all she could muster was giddy.
Etymology: bliss (perfect happiness; great joy) + misfortune (bad luck)
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COMMENTS:
Blissfortune is perfect for the definition. I'm impressed (again)! - splendiction, 2009-10-09: 21:57:00
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Foemotional
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: foh - moshun - ul
Sentence: Genevieve felt foemotional when Sally lost her job. Even though she was her colleague, Genevieve did not like her and pretended to be sad when she cleaned out her desk...
Etymology: foe, emotional
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