Schadenfreude a.k.a. gloating
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Started conversation May 3, 2009
People are always going around saying "Schadenfreude (the pleasure one feels from witnessing another's misfortunes) has no equivalent in English", to which I cannot help but wonder whether they have never heard of gloating...
gloat: v. to regard one's own good fortune or the misfortune of others with smug or malicious pleasure