Antonyms for gloat
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : gloht |
| Phonetic Transcription : gloÊŠt |
Definition of gloat
Origin :- 1570s, "to look at furtively," from a Scandinavian source, cf. Old Norse glotta "to grin, smile scornfully, show the teeth," Swedish dialectal glotta "to peep;" or from Middle High German glotzen "to stare, gape." Sense of "to look at with malicious satisfaction" first recorded 1748. Related: Gloated; gloating. As a noun, from 1640s with sense of "side-glance;" 1899 as "act of gloating."
- verb exclaim triumph
- For a full minute he seemed to gloat over the flower-like animal.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- And now I'm going to write to your sister May and gloat over her.
- Extract from : « People of Position » by Stanley Portal Hyatt
- Think of that, ye who gloat over the sinking of my mortal self.
- Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
- He expected the other to come round—to gloat over his agony.
- Extract from : « Tales of Unrest » by Joseph Conrad
- If a trick had been played them the perpetrators should not gloat over their discomfiture.
- Extract from : « The Carroll Girls » by Mabel Quiller-Couch
- It is so terrible, Ecciva: I cannot jest, nor gloat on it for news.
- Extract from : « The Royal Pawn of Venice » by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
- I have kept it to gloat over it, as a slave might over his ‘free papers.’
- Extract from : « Her Mother's Secret » by Emma D. E. N. Southworth
- Then would I rush to the world, proclaim her fallen, and gloat over her wretchedness.
- Extract from : « Saronia » by Richard Short
- He leaned over the table the better to gloat upon the golden jar.
- Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1919 » by Various
- But I want to do something first that I can gloat over later.
- Extract from : « Talents, Incorporated » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Synonyms for gloat
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