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/glˈoʊtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Gloat v. i. (past & past part. gloated; pres. part. gloating)

To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; to gaze with passionate desire, lust, or avarice.

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."

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Etymology of 'Gloating'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gloating" Quotes from Famous Books

... certainly pleasing, and are in every way endeavoring to be so to their young lady companions, and appear to have succeeded very well in their efforts, for, as they whirl over the floor, they gaze into the eyes gloating over them and gleaming with a fury of lust. They allow words to be whispered to them which they would not listen to at any other time; listening now, they come closer still, and in response to a pressure of her hand, his arm tightens its clasp of her waist, and she, losing all restraint, ...

— From the Ball-Room to Hell • T. A. Faulkner

... blowing clouds of smoke and gloating over this fact when the door opened, admitting a bull-terrier, a bull-dog, and in the wake of the procession a girl in ...

— The Intrusion of Jimmy • P. G. Wodehouse

... floor and sparse old furniture. The beds—there were two—were made of iron, enameled black and painted with bunches of gay flowers. She lay putting off the great moment of going to the window as one puts off opening a precious letter, gloating over it. She had no idea what time it was; she had forgotten to wind up her watch ever since, centuries ago, she last went to bed in Hampstead. No sounds were to be heard in the house, so she supposed it was very early, yet she felt as if she had slept a ...

— The Enchanted April • Elizabeth von Arnim

... passed through my thoughts to cry out for help again; though few could know better than I, the solitary nature of the spot, and the hopelessness of aid. But as he sat gloating over me, I was supported by a scornful detestation of him that sealed my lips. Above all things, I resolved that I would not entreat him, and that I would die making some last poor resistance to him. Softened as my thoughts of ...

— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens

... leading the way, glanced over his shoulder at his prisoners with a smile of such gloating, Satanic suggestiveness and cruelty on his heavy features as the cry pealed forth that, on the instant, the feeling of passive repugnance with which the two Englishmen had thus far regarded the fellow was converted ...

— Two Gallant Sons of Devon - A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood

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