is no direct English equivalent but I'd say it is malicious joy at another's discomfort..
"To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Humour is just Schadenfreude with a clear conscience." (Nietzsche)
You might say:
A delightful sense of schadenfreude engulfed her when she saw that the dirty and disheveled beauty queen had humiliated herself.
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