gloat
verb (used without object)
to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction.
Example Sentences
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She exploits every scrap of ironic humor, as Richard gloatingly checkmates all who stand in her way.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2018
The biggest “cultural revolt” of the president’s tenure is what one British newspaper gloatingly called the latest French contretemps.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2011
Day after his retirement from office, Maryland's fat former Governor, Republican Harry Whinna Nice, gloatingly sent to his successor, Democrat Herbert O'Conor, a package of headache powders.
From Time Magazine Archive
German propagandists had once spoken gloatingly of the destruction which their Luftwaffe visited on British cities; they could find no words now to quell the rising terror of their people under the Allied bombs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ron merely guffawed gloatingly and strode off into the Hall after him, but Harry caught Hermione’s arm and held her back.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
