gloat
verb (used without object)
to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction.
will gloat
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future tenseof gloat.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure.
From Time ● Jul. 5, 2017
The audience will gloat, not shiver, when a character says: "I'll get you for this, Logan, if it takes me twenty years"; or, "Wong, you'll pay for this."
From Time Magazine Archive
However, the more vulgar a nature is the more it will gloat on gossip; and herein the most pretentious of the higher classes show themselves no better than the basest.
From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland
There, we will leave a memento over which the admirable Dr. Jones will gloat his philosophical soul.
From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Mary Yonge
She will gloat over me, and tell everyone that I am here in the same way as she is.
From The Benefactress by Elizabeth
