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Gloating   /glˈoʊtɪŋ/   Listen
Gloating

noun
1.
Malicious satisfaction.  Synonyms: glee, gloat.


Gloat

verb
(past & past part. gloated; pres. part. gloating)
1.
Dwell on with satisfaction.  Synonyms: crow, triumph.
2.
Gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy.





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"Gloating" Quotes from Famous Books



... crawled away to find somewhere a flying end of a rope; and Wamibo, held back by shouts:—"Don't jump!... Don't come in here, muddle-head!"—remained glaring above us—all shining eyes, gleaming fangs, tumbled hair; resembling an amazed and half-witted fiend gloating over the extraordinary agitation of the damned. The boatswain adjured us to "bear a hand," and a rope descended. We made things fast to it and they went up spinning, never to be seen by man again. ...
— The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" - A Tale Of The Forecastle • Joseph Conrad
... stables, I put up my horse and climbed with my booty to my loft. Raphael was not there, and tying Ciacco to my bed-post I again examined the gems, gloating over their beauty and yet wishing with all my heart that they had never come into my possession. I compared them with a list in the box, found none missing, and returning them to the little casket carefully corded and sealed the same, and sat for a long time racking my brains for some issue from ...
— Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) • Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney
... her. He was a sensual man, and her physical beauty annoyed him. He would have liked to sit down alone with her and take her hand in his own and talk to her about her "soul" while gloating over her body. But in the "old tramp's" presence there was nothing to be done. So he ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... fell like his, and she shuddered, and was beaten. But there was the roomful of people, watching; there was Mrs. Armistead, there were the Witherspoon women gloating. She forced a tortured smile to her lips, and asked, "What are we ...
— Sylvia's Marriage • Upton Sinclair
... and baker and candlestick maker, from unmixed reasons of policy. To be gracious in the role of a grande dame would have pleased her, but she resented the necessity; and she avenged herself upon fate by gloating upon the stupidity of that power in wasting her energies in these petty things, when results so brilliant might have been attained by a more wise utilization of ...
— The Philistines • Arlo Bates


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