How to Use schadenfreude in a Sentence

schadenfreude

noun

• Let the schadenfreude ring and the voyeur in you rejoice.
  — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• Looks like the in-flight menu was a hefty serving of schadenfreude.
  — Emma Stefansky, The Hive, 4 Mar. 2017
• Fields is not in it for the easy schadenfreude, either way.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2022
• Sometimes, though, the thrill is tinged with schadenfreude.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• There is a bit of schadenfreude among Calvert’s critics.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
• The temporary schadenfreude can’t erase the writing on the Jazz’s wall.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 May 2022
• And the diminutive does certainly add to the schadenfreude.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 20 Mar. 2013
• With a hint of schadenfreude, Democrats warned Tuesday’s chaos could be a sign of things to come this session.
  — Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2023
• The review set off a wave of gossip and no small measure of schadenfreude.
  — Gabe Ulla, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2016
• Yet the gravity of the 2020 US election is such that any schadenfreude of mine is beside the point.
  — Minae Mizumura, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2020
• Also, some top-shelf schadenfreude if the 49ers and Broncos miss the playoffs.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
• There is almost no schadenfreude in the Matt Gaetz downfall.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 20 May 2021
• And when their high-flying brands fell back to earth over the next few years, the schadenfreude was relentless.
  — Maggie McGrath, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• If there is schadenfreude among ships, the YM Wish was perhaps not feeling it.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2021
• But more than anything, their stories are a source of plain old schadenfreude.
  — New York Times, 9 Oct. 2021
• This would be chiefly the inflicting of pain, toilets, and schadenfreude.
  — Michael Hofmann, The New York Review of Books, 28 Sep. 2023
• This movie is why the Germans invented the word schadenfreude.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• There's schadenfreude at play in that enjoyment, too, of course.
  — Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED, 4 June 2019
• One part of the game's appeal is its element of schadenfreude.
  — Mickey Butts, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2001
• Headlines about the anti-vax volte-face come with a detectable whiff of schadenfreude.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2021
• But our schadenfreude is a product of the same illusion.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 18 May 2022
• This one has an extra dash of schadenfreude for Packers fans.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2018
• The thing about schadenfreude is that the freude (joy) is usually savored when the schaden (the bad thing) happens to someone else.
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2022
• And wags can’t help but indulge in a new round of schadenfreude at Damon’s expense.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 15 June 2022
• The true mark of friendship, according to Munn, is a little bit of schadenfreude.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2017
• There is perhaps no story that has brought out more schadenfreude than the downfall of Rep. Matt Gaetz.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2021
• Some of the reactions were cases of pure schadenfreude.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Oct. 2019
• There’s a bit of déjà vu and hopefully not too much schadenfreude going on here.
  — Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• Tesla famously sells directly to customers and doesn’t use car dealers, so a bit of dealer group schadenfreude can be expected.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
• Reactions range across schadenfreude, anticipation of what will happen to Pocket Pair in the future or pure malice.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024