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http://www.thecanary.co/2016/10/12/new-word-shaftedfreude-describes-remainers-feel-brexit/
When the UK voted to leave the European Union, and the luminaries of the Leave campaign abandoned their responsibilities like rats from a tired metaphor, the people who voted Remain began to experience a curious emotion. An emotion which had until then been nameless.
The word that has been coined to describe this feeling is:
Shaftedfreude
October 13, 2016