gloating
Example Sentences
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I won’t join in the gloating of some critics at the hundreds who have lost their jobs.
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
They spent the first quarter hour of their walk gloating.
From Literature
The BBC learned earlier this week that the hackers sent an abuse-filled email directly to M&S's boss on 23 April, gloating about what they had done and demanding payment.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
