Sentence examples for malicious delight from inspiring English sources

As panic sets in, the invisible culprit is "stamping his little feet and hugging himself in malicious delight".

All in a line behind our capitan, Fabio Cannavaro, who comes from the city of pizza," wrote Gazzetta dello Sport with malicious delight.

Though she emphasized softness as Odette, Ms. Tuttle sharpened all her steps and gestures as Odile and appeared to take a malicious delight in deceiving Mr. Bocca's Siegfried in a crackling Black Swan pas de deux.

Those stories -- and others -- have found their way into the German press in recent days, evidently leaked by Foreign Ministry officials enjoying a large dose of that malicious delight at others' misfortune for which the Germans have a special word: Schadenfreude.

Man laughs, says Trissino (echoing Plato's dialogue Philebus), because he is envious and malicious and never delights in the good of others except when he hopes for some good from it for himself.

His special delight was a column spiced with malicious gossip called Mungo Fairweather's Diary.

Malicious distribution.

Malicious detachment.

Many were malicious.

It was nothing malicious.

"This is a malicious lie.