gloat

[ UK /ɡlˈə‍ʊt/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɫoʊt/ ]
NOUN
  1. malicious satisfaction
VERB
  1. dwell on with satisfaction
  2. gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy
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How To Use gloat In A Sentence

  • And, no, I didn't gloat or say anything mean about politics.
  • Never gloat over the ruin of your friend.
  • A disaster for the media, but worth a gloat from everyone else.
  • Of particular beauty here, of course, is the use of utterly inappropriate terms to maintain the rhyme, which saw ‘gloat’ used as a noun directly above this unlearned and unlovely deformed child of a verse.
  • How the demons and vampires in the ward had gloated! Dreams of a Dark Warrior
  • ‘Of course, it was from my help that you passed,’ he gloated with a big triumphant smile.
  • While the Left Party is gloating over its unexpected election success, a grand coalition will go into action.
  • As expected chavismo is gloating, including very, very unseemingly the new president of the TSJ who was not involved directly in that decision although we can be quite certain he orchestrated it. 03/06/2005 - 03/13/2005
  • His right hand, clenched into an iron mallet, battered desperately at the fearful face bent toward his; the beast-like teeth shattered under his blows and blood splattered, but still the red eyes gloated and the taloned fingers sank deeper and deeper until a ringing in Turlogh's ears knelled his soul's departure. People of the Dark
  • He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures. Times, Sunday Times
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