schadenfreude

Maybe if you stare long enough at the catastrophe, you might work through your schadenfreude to its opposite: empathy.

There is only one language in the world which has a word to express that type of mirth; the word is Schadenfreude.

Bertha guesses its contents and revels in the luxury of pity and schadenfreude.

"I can easily believe you don't approve it," she said with a gleam of Schadenfreude.

The curious and expressive German word Schadenfreude cannot be translated into any other language.

The word used means, like the German "Schadenfreude," rejoicing at another's injury.