gloating

Example Sentences

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I feel overwhelmingly grateful to her for being sad about their breakup instead of gloating.

From Literature

And so, when Dubai and other parts of the United Arab Emirates were targeted by some 1,400 Iranian missiles and drones over the past several days, the reaction abroad was often gloating and snark.

From The Wall Street Journal

I won’t join in the gloating of some critics at the hundreds who have lost their jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bringing it home is Sudeikis’ manner as he shares Ted’s folksy anecdote: it contains not a whit of vanity or gloating at his adversary’s downfall.

From Salon

The kind of gloating you do when you win and you’re glad, but you’re trying not to be too much of a jerk about it.

From Literature