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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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Miselation
Created by: PythianHabenero
Pronunciation: mizza-lation
Sentence: Upon hearing that her arch-nemesis fell down a well, Jeanine was filled with miselation.
Etymology: "misery" + "elation" with help from "mis-"
Sadpy
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: sad-pee
Sentence: When Rachel heard that her office enemy had spilled her coffee all over her own laptop she became very sadpy.
Etymology: contraction of "sad" and "happy"
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
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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Culpabiliglee
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kulp a bili glee
Sentence: Faith could hardly suppress her culpabiliglee when her boss fired Edwin for sexual harrassment. She had hated the guy from day one, especially since he had failed to find her attractive and ask her out. Her manipulations and far-fetched victim's tale had finally forced her boss to remove her enemy.
Etymology: Culpability (state of guilt) & Glee (malicious satisfaction)
Tribyelation
Created by: TimTheEnchanter
Pronunciation: trib-yee-LAY-shun
Sentence: Sandra hated the way her neighbor Kelly reminded everyone of how the only things more perfect than her life were her perfect little children. Thus, Sandra was overcome by a profound sense of tribyelation when she heard Kelly's youngest child was caught selling drugs at school and the oldest was pregnant.
Etymology: Tribulation - (misfortune, a trying experience) + Elation (the state of being filled with joy)
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COMMENTS:
great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-16: 12:28:00
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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
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)
Vooblue
Created by: Sissyphus
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Martin lost his job because of the fight we had when he was working... in a way I feel bad, but the vooblue is leading me towards a celebratory drink..
Etymology:
Gleemorse
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: glee - morse
Sentence: Frowning on the outside, giggling on the inside, Lucinda was thoroughly enjoying her waves of gleemorse as word circulated around the office that her social superior and tormentor, Elvira, had been diagnosed with genital herpes and was suddenly being shunned by all the single guys in the department.
Etymology: blend of glee and remorse
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COMMENTS:
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-16: 12:32:00
Sounds like you have invented the gleemorsecode - Nosila, 2008-06-16: 19:22:00
Love it! Good one! - lumina, 2008-06-16: 22:35:00
Fantastic. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-17: 02:54:00
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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