I found a nice word in Jane Austen's Persuasion: "angry pleasure"
I hear about "guilty pleasure" all the time but I'd never heard of "angry pleasure." (It seems like an angrier way to say "schadenfreude").
Has this phrase been lost because we'd rather refer to ourselves as "guilty" than "angry"?
Certainly a great phrase! Although I take 'angry pleasure' to mean something different to 'guilty pleasure' - guilty pleasure is drinking wine, say, when you know you shouldn't; angry pleasure, to me, is pretending you are outwardly pleased with a situation when you are inwardly angry about it.
May 14, 2025 13:52
