gloat
Use Gloat in a sentence
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.
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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gloat (ɡləʊt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb (often foll by over) | |
| 1. | to dwell (on) with malevolent smugness or exultation |
| —n | |
| 2. | the act of gloating |
| [C16: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse glotta to grin, Middle High German glotzen to stare] | |
| 'gloater | |
| —n | |
| 'gloatingly | |
| —adv | |
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Etymonline
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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Example sentences
The candidates seemed neck and neck and not inclined to gloat.
But even if the former decides not to stand, the latter has little to gloat about.
He doesn't gloat or count enemies but moves to the next task.
Re-energised authoritarian regimes gloat over the so-called wisdom of repressive laws and acts.
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