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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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Regretaspitlicious
Created by: mana1066
Pronunciation: re-gret-a-spit-lish-us
Sentence: Trying to hide my regretaspitlicious smile, i shook his hand as he left the office.
Etymology: regretfully + spite +delicious
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COMMENTS:
dunno why i wanted to add delicious in there. - mana1066, 2007-03-27: 00:20:00
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Goolight
Created by: sasgod
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: 'goo' something yucky/nasty and '-light' from delight.
Karmahap
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: kar-mah-hap
Sentence: When Tish found out that her ex-boss Larry broke his neck while skiing, she felt such overwhelming karmahap that she actually wrote something kind in his well card, despite the fact that when she worked for him years ago he repeatedly told her she was fat and had body odor.
Etymology: karma + happy
Hiphipsorray
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: hip hip sorray
Sentence: A classic case of "the good news and the bad news" was just the way Candace's life seemed to be going lately. So when she heard Linda, not Linda B., but Linda S, the one who stole her man had been fired the same day her cat died, she couldn't help but feel hiphipsorray.
Etymology: Feeling sorry on the outside, but cheering on the inside.
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COMMENTS:
great - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-16: 12:29:00
Excellent - Mustang, 2008-06-16: 19:21:00
Hey, thanks guys. Just found this fun site, and finding my way around. I make up alot of words for fun anyway, so this is right up my alley. :) Alot of VERY talented Verbologists here! :) - lumina, 2008-06-16: 22:33:00
Very i-LUMINA-ting. But I'm sorry about the cat. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-17: 03:08:00
Ozziebob...yeah...the cat...Candace is still feeling very illitterate about it. (Etymology: ill=sick, litter=as in kitty. Def: The lowest point of grief after losing a beloved feline.) :) - lumina, 2008-06-17: 10:46:00
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Gladdist
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: glad-dist
Sentence: When Jenny's boyfriend dumped her, she was sad. When he started going out with her best friend, she was mad. But when they accidentally got sprayed by skunk which she had hidden under the front seat of his car, she was gladdist.
Etymology: glad+ sadist
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-16: 12:31:00
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Malecstasy
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: mə-lěk'stə-sē
Sentence: When her a-hole neighbor Mark slipped on his icy front walk, Lana couldn't help giggling like a schoolgirl with malecstasy.
Etymology: malicious, malignant ecstacy
Guiltglee
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: GUILT+GLEE
Sentence: He is so full of false pride about being assigned the new position, I will be so full of guiltglee if his first big assignment is a flop.
Etymology: GUILT+GLEE
Voodoolicious
Created by: Tanik
Pronunciation: voo-do-li-sh-iss
Sentence: Man, this moment is voodoolicious. He totally deserved that dressing down.
Etymology: voodoo + delicious
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COMMENTS:
I like it! - wordmeister, 2008-06-17: 06:19:00
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Coolamity
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kool am it ee
Sentence: It wasn't that Jane wasn't fond of Bill...no, she absolutely hated him.He had started after her, for more money and she had to train him. To top that, he got a promotion and big raise that should have been hers. While she slaved away ensuring that the project was completed on time, he swanned off to join the boss for golf every Wednesday afternoon. That Bill was just schmoozing his way into the old boys' network and she was left behind to do all the work! This Wednesday things had changed, as if in answer to Jane's prayers. After the "boys" went off for their weekly golf game, a dreadful storm had blown in. At the 15th hole, Bill had been struck dead by lightening and perished. Jane's reaction, between crocodile tears, was one of coolamity...now they'd have to promote her to fill Bill's place. She liked that...her new name would be Coolamity Jane!
Etymology: Cool ( psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike or great coolness and composure under strain) & Amity (a state of friendship and cordiality) & Calamity (an event resulting in great loss and misfortune)
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COMMENTS:
Doesn't seem a fairway to go? Enjoyed your sentence; cool word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-17: 02:58:00
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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