How To Use Gloating In A Sentence
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You have seen the sort of man I mean: to-day generous to his last plack, to-morrow the widow's oppressor; Sunday a soul humble at the throne of grace, and writhing with remorse for some child's sin, Monday riding vain-gloriously in the glaur on the road to hell, bragging of filthy amours, and inwardly gloating upon a crime anticipated.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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The conventional politenesses of each relationship are interspersed with hurt, power play, and gloating.
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The fact was that he had sold out certain stock, and every night took an intense delight in contemplating those ten thousand francs, gloating over them, and finding something quite roysterous and insurrectional in their appearance.
The Fat and the Thin
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Anti-abortionists are gloating over the court's decision.
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He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures.
Times, Sunday Times
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I paused my gloating momentarily to glance over my shoulder.
Christianity Today
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Say phooey to all your gloating girlfriends who spend V-day with any old bloke just because they are too insecure to make it on their own.
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"You can't do anything, " she was already gloating over her victory.
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That's hardly what I call a substantial lead worth gloating over.
Poll: Hillary Beating The Republicans In Florida
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Stop gloating just because you won the game!
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The indictment cited internal company emails, gloating that the Wiseguys "pigged out" for a Giants playoff game last year and "dominated" a ticket purchase of a "Dancing With the Stars" event in 2008.
Four Charged in Bid To Buy, Resell Tickets
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No, I'm not gloating, because too much pain has been caused.
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I don't want those ghouls from the council gawping at his wounds and gloating over a victory they did nothing to achieve.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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There's no gloating about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Between gloating, and babbling about how she and the Queen would discuss dress-making while Albert and I boozed in the gunroom (she had a marvellous notion of court life, you see), she went into declines at the thought that she would come out in spots, or have her drawers fall down when being presented.
Fiancée
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There's no gloating about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wasn't gloating," Aleneil said, then stopped as a dryad with beflowered, trailing willow-withies for hair asked what they would have.
Ill Met By Moonlight
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They produced cartoons that were distributed widely in Southern California that showed Karenga and his comrades gloating about the murders.
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Myself and about 6 or 7 close friends were all in Bruce's study with Tim, passing around my chillum filled with herb grown by my hands (a bit of gloating here).
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It was horrible to see her gloating over her brother's misfortune.
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Stop gloating just because you won the game!
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But with division rival Tampa Bay coming to Charlotte next Monday night, Smith wasn't gloating about the Panthers 'stunning 35-31 victory in wintry conditions at Lambeau Field.
USATODAY.com
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Adam shamelessly accepted the word miser with a gloating chuckle.
Kenny
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An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.
Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
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Had the consequences not been so tragic and desperately inhumane, we would have been excused for gloating.
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He was gloating over the ruin of his rival.
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There is no style in gloating about money.
Times, Sunday Times
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None other than committed Tory, and NO voter, Fred (Sir Fred) Goodwin, (see below to explain why) No gloating from Fred though – he came to consol me.
Archive 2009-03-01
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For all anyone knows, al-Qaida's gloating in its murderous glossy magazine, Inspire, and Niall Ferguson's talk of a caliphate are just as otiose as Blair's jawdropping exhortation, given his legacy of mayhem, for the west to show "the courage of our convictions, and the self-confident belief we can achieve them".
Women are often the losers when the west weighs in | Catherine Bennett
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The captain and purser are gloating over the sycee silver, for the Chinese government is as jealous of its exportation as of the importation of opium; and the sky and the sea are dark and angry.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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In one tape the men can be heard gloating about how little evidence the police had.
Times, Sunday Times
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My father had a go-round with the school headmaster himself," Carl said, gloating a little.
ANGELS EVERYWHERE
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He ought to be able to blockade his mind to any speculations as concerned his future usefulness by raising up a perfect barricade of past memories, and then by sitting down on top of the barricade and gloating because it was a little higher than that upbuilt by the next man.
The Brentons
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The article described in gloating detail all of the things that they'd bought with their bingo winnings and gave several nuggets of information revealing what their lives had been like before and after the win.
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Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more. Clarence Darrow
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I stress I know nothing about the woman herself, but the background to his defenestration – hate mail from pro-life and animal cruelty groups, frenzied character assassinations from the ghastly Cristina Odone, and an unspeakably unpleasant piece of twit-gloating from the even ghastlier Nadine Dorries soon afterwards – is inescapable.
Arise, geeks
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Actually, there is a bit of enviousness, or what we call, I don't know what is the English word for it, but it is like gloating.
CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2009
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But this resurrection is so often artless and joyless gloating, reducing an intense physiological/psychological experience to vulgar explication.
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They inform you, but never hectoringly or gloatingly.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were throaty, gloating roars from more than 30,000 fans as their side notched up another league win in midweek.
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There is a temptation to do a bit of gloating about the unprofessional standards of certain accountancy firms.
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For example, many evangelicals are almost gloating over the decline of the liberals.
Christianity Today
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He told her of the fairy mill, of the old man's gloating pride in the word miser, of All Souls 'Eve and Adam Craig's hints about the apple tree and the lilac bush.
Kenny
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He sat there, gloating as he ate his second helping of dessert.
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Here was a gloating scheme of ingenuity, an immigrant strategy for economic survival that was taking on great possibilities.
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"Shallow Throat": Dems' Cave-In Is Truly Scary
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He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no style in gloating about money.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leading hawks within the Bush administration are gloating over their humbling of Europe and are opposed to any concessions to America's rivals.
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I knew you knew it would work out this way but gloating like that is, well, just tacky.
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This album's lairy gloating is made just about bearable because Tinie is, at heart, a nice guy, who – like his most obvious referent, Kanye West – mentions his mum every few songs.
Tinie Tempah: Disc-Overy
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But he is not gloating over his victory.
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He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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I contemplated forgoing the gloating and simply waving to the Beemer boys in a gentlemanly, dignified manner.
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But I am convinced it was about gloating.
The Sun
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But I am convinced it was about gloating.
The Sun
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Cartoonists have depicted these forces more anthropomorphically, drawing tormented characters with shining angels on one shoulder and gloating devils on the other.
Song of My Selves
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There may be those who are secretly gloating about all this.
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he spoke gloatingly about people he had cheated out of their money
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But before gloating at their discomfort, the government has its own manifesto dilemma.
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She was still gloating over her rival's disappointment.
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This helped me to be a great deal less judgmental and to avoid gloating at the misfortune of others.
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While the Left Party is gloating over its unexpected election success, a grand coalition will go into action.
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The balance of gloating now seems to have moved to the supposed determination of the Americans to grab all the reconstruction contracts.
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English tourists, outraged by the gloating - despite our inglorious failure to qualify for the tournament ourselves - are threatening to pick up their ball and walk away, taking their cash with them.
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He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures.
Times, Sunday Times
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He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fine: then what is called for now is not triumphalism and gloating, but an abject apology.
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For example, many evangelicals are almost gloating over the decline of the liberals.
Christianity Today
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In one tape the men can be heard gloating about how little evidence the police had.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not gloating, but out of respect, we knew the enormity of what we had achieved.
