A new book, Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune,†by Tiffany Watt Smith. If you make fun of poor people, you insult the God who made them. Implicit Schadenfreude of disaster spectators. Schadenfreude definition, satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's trivial and/or deserved misfortune. It means pleasure caused by the misfortune of non-Muslims.