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verb (used without object)
1.
to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
noun
2.
an act or feeling of gloating.
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Origin:
1565–75; perhaps akin to Old Norse glotta to smile scornfully; compare German glotzen to stare
1565–75; perhaps akin to Old Norse glotta to smile scornfully; compare German glotzen to stare
Related forms
gloat·er, noun
gloat·ing·ly, adverb
un·gloat·ing, adjective
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Example Sentences
- It may not be polite to gloat about your good fortune in front of your guests.
- Re-energised authoritarian regimes gloat over the so-called wisdom of repressive laws and acts.
- While there was nothing for racegoers to gloat over in the way of weather yesterday, it was not at all a bad day.
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Word Origin & History
gloat
1575, "to look at furtively," from O.N. glotta "smile scornfully," or M.H.G. glotzen "to stare, gloat." Sense of "to look at with malicious satisfaction" first recorded 1748.
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