Crossword clues for gloating
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gloat \Gloat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloated; p. pr. & vb. n. Gloating.] [Akin to Icel. glotta to smile scornfully, G. glotzen to gloat.] To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; to gaze with passionate desire, lust, or avarice.
2. To gaze with malignant satisfaction; to exult maliciously, sometimes also triumphantly, in another's loss or discomfort; -- usually in a bad sense.
In vengeance gloating on another's pain.
--Byron.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who gloats. vb. (present participle of gloat English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "gloating".
From where he sat, Dave could see Fleech tremble and sag in the supporting hands of the gloating men who gripped him.
He saw the gloating face of Foy, with its cruel lips uttering words to the witness.
He grabbed Mary by the hand and they ran back to the house gloating with their safely executed deed.
As the yuzbashi studied it, Juliet saw Habib standing a short distance away, a gloating expression on his face.
PING SLATTERLY, still out of sight behind the glare of the acetylene light, was emitting a gloating chuckle.
I enjoy the expectation with which the top is wrenched off the can of worms as if from some amazing birthday present, and then the sense of anticlimax in the watching faces: the forced tears and skimpy, gloating pity, the cued and dutiful applause.
He was like a man gloating secretly over a jewel that he knew everybody was trying to steal and he even stared at Prew calculatingly suspiciously, as if he had learned the hard way that even friendship was suspect before so great a temptation.
True, a long list of Christian writers may be cited as maintaining that this is to be a principal element in the felicity of the redeemed, gloating over the tortures of the damned, singing the song of praise with redoubled emphasis as they see their parents, their children, their former bosom companions, writhing and howling in the fell extremities of torture.
Did he not lie in bed, the gross boar, gloating over a nauseous fragment of wellused toilet paper presented to him by a nasty harlot, stimulated by gingerbread and a postal order?
Gerhardt seemed almost offensively bubbling with confidence, gloating as he informed Harker that it was only a matter of days before the court tossed Raymond and Harker out of control of Beller Labs and reinstated Klaus and Mitchison.
Prince, Bharata Rahon, gloating in anticipation over the fruits of his villainy.
Slowly, it described a semicircle, while Gypper and his followers traced the gleam with gloating eyes.
It went to my heart to leave such things as those sweet tools to the tender mercies of an old thief of a savage whose greedy eyes I could see gloating over them.
Andrews to a moderately gloating roundup of problems to be raised when representatives of the Kaiser and the Sublime Porte finally held separate meetings with a US arbitrator, to discuss renewing the Osmanli Accord, the treaty that defined spheres of economic influence in North Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans.
When one woman asks this question of another, it is ordinarily intended as an announcement of a property right, not a query, and the tone of voice ranges from subtle sardonicism to savage gloating.