Usually means: Pleasure derived from others' misfortune.
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  1. schadenfreude: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. schadenfreude: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. schadenfreude: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Schadenfreude: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Schadenfreude: Vocabulary.com
  6. Schadenfreude, schadenfreude: Wordnik
  7. schadenfreude: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. schadenfreude: Wiktionary
  9. schadenfreude: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Schadenfreude: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. schadenfreude: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. schadenfreude: Dictionary.com
  13. schadenfreude: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Schadenfreude (EP), Schadenfreude (album), Schadenfreude: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Schadenfreude: Rhymezone
  16. schadenfreude: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  17. Schadenfreude: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. schadenfreude: Free Dictionary
  19. schadenfreude: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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  1. Schadenfreude: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. Schadenfreude: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. schadenfreude: A Word A Day
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noun:  Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.

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