gloat
verb (used without object)
to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction.
are gloating
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present progressiveof gloat.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"The voices are gloating at the trouble they have got him into here," he said.
From BBC ● May 8, 2024
Inside the room, Shiv and Kendall are gloating.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2023
With humor and pride, Russians are gloating over their athletes’ many medals this summer despite a prohibition on national symbols at the Tokyo Summer Olympics — a punishment for egregious past doping infractions.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2021
Deploying the 101st Airborne to enforce the integration of Little Rock High School in 1957, he warned that “our enemies are gloating over this incident and using it everywhere to misrepresent our whole nation.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2020
Most young men of twenty-five are gloating over it: feeling themselves sad cynics, suffering from a tragic past.
From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter
