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gloat
[ gloht ]
verb (used without object)
- to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction:
The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
noun
- an act or feeling of gloating.
gloat
/ ɡəʊ /
verb
- introften foll byover to dwell (on) with malevolent smugness or exultation
noun
- the act of gloating
Derived Forms
- ˈDzپԲ, adverb
- ˈDzٱ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- Dz· noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of gloat1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of gloat1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“Oakland in ’87 was hella wild,” gloats rapper Too Short, the film’s narrator.
Moscow has already gloated about the "splits" it sees in Western unity.
The commander-in-chief gave himself one more honorific while gloating over the potential end of New York City's congestion pricing: king.
On Sunday, it publicly gloated as Israeli forces carried out an agreed-upon pullback from a narrow, 4-mile long corridor that divides the south of Gaza from the heavily populated north.
But even in supposed victory, his gloating found few echoes; the so-called War on Christmas, rather than ending in climactic struggle and triumph, seemed to just fade away from the national discourse.
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