gloat
verb (used without object)
to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction.
is gloating
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present progressiveof gloat (3rd person singular).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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Most often, the sender is gloating about something or other.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2016
Much of the action in “Salivation Army” happens under the Max Rager roof, where Vaughn is gloating over his billion-dollar sale of the energy drink company to Vivian’s paramilitary firm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2016
Each camp is gloating over a minor tactical triumph.
From Time Magazine Archive
Explains O'Sullivan: "One of the attractions of living here is gloating about how all your friends up North are freezing."
From Time Magazine Archive
But while the miser is gloating over the enormous wealth before him—even "wealth beyond the dreams of avarice"—a great black dog comes and lays himself down on the sacks.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
