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
Fallon shouldn't have gloated; he shouldn't have threatened.
From Then I'll Come Back to You by Larry Evans
How some of those eyes must have gloated out their green leering!
From Quiet Talks about Jesus by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
It would have gloated over the little you could have given it, and it would have damned me unheard.
From The Hollow of Her Hand by George Barr McCutcheon
I warn you first to know yourself, you who have gloated in a looking-glass too long.
From "Der Tag" The Tragic Man by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
