gloat
verb (used without object)
to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction.
have gloated
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present perfectof gloat.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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How Bonfils, like Desperate Desmond, and Tammen, like a malicious cherub, must have gloated!
From Time Magazine Archive
Had revenge been all I sought of him, how I might have gloated over his miserable downfall!
From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Rafael Sabatini
How some of those eyes must have gloated out their green leering!
From Quiet Talks about Jesus by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
I have sinned a thousand times as I have gloated over your beauty, heard the music of your voice, touched your soft hand and looked into your soul through those dear blue eyes.
From The One Woman by Thomas Dixon
How would not poor Maldon, with his ever fresh ambition after the unattainable, have gloated on such a scene!
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by George MacDonald
