SCHADENFREUDE in a Sentence

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Reports of Angela Merkel's phone being monitored by the US National Security Agency were met in Germany not just with outrage, but a more ...

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schadenfreude
 n.  pleasure in another person's misfortune
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1  Reports of Angela Merkel's phone being monitored by the US National Security Agency were met in Germany not just with outrage, but a more familiar German emotion: schadenfreude.