gloat
verb (used without object)
to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction.
had gloated
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past perfectof gloat.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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"It's better than gold," he had gloated in a scene taped by Government agents that was replayed repeatedly in court and on nationwide television.
From Time Magazine Archive
Phil Murray had gloated: "Reuther has been contained."
From Time Magazine Archive
“It’s the highest kind of justice of all,’’Clevinger had gloated, clapping his hands with a merry laugh.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
He lost the sight on which his coarse imagination had gloated for days, which he had longed for during months.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
She had a ring on her finger—a ring that for months I had gloated over and watched, as I had never watched and gloated over any other beautiful thing in my life.
From The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green
