perverse delight

Examples (10)

• She took a perverse delight in watching her rival's project fail spectacularly.
• He finds a perverse delight in the chaotic sound of city traffic.
• The child seemed to derive a perverse delight from repeatedly clicking his pen during the quiet exam.
• While everyone else complained, he felt a perverse delight in walking through the pouring rain.
• There's a certain perverse delight in watching a tragedy unfold on screen, knowing it's not real.
• He watched the awkward silence at the dinner table with a sense of perverse delight.
• The villain in the story took perverse delight in causing minor inconveniences for the hero.
• She admitted to having a perverse delight in eating the burnt edges of the pizza.
• Some critics argue that the author's work reveals a perverse delight in human suffering.
• Looking back, I can't help but feel a perverse delight that his get-rich-quick scheme completely backfired.