gloat

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"Shall varlets," he said to Richard, in French, "gloat over the quarrels of their lords?"

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  1. intransitive verb To feel or express great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction: Don't gloat over your rival's misfortune.
  2. noun The act of gloating.
  3. noun A feeling of great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction.

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  • The machine was not equipped to gloat, and surely with Paul imprisoned here as he was, there could be no other reason for informing him about events he was powerless to have an effect upon. —  Dickson, Gordon - Childe Cycle 02 Necromancer
  • Then, in mid-gloat, the reception room had been plunged into darkness by means of a suppression field that muted all surveillance energies. —  FSF,September2004
  • Dr. Cashin's results should be an easy reason for Mayor Joel I. Klein to gloat, a triumph in their takeover of the nation's largest school system. —  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space
  • I like to brag, gloat, and be arrogant about this as much as I possibly can, so let me take this opportunity to say that I have met Bill Whittle, and he has my phone number, and ever so often, he uses it. —  Rachel Lucas
  • It's still too early to gloat, there's a LOT of time between now and November. —  Reverse_Vampyr
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  1. Perhaps of Scandinavian origin; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also glote (also glout); from Icelandic glotta, grin, smile scornfully, = Swedish dial. glotta, glutta, peep, = Middle High German glotzen, German glotzen, stare. Cf. Old Bulgarian gledati, look, see. The Swedish Danish glo, stare, is a particular use of glo, glow: see glow and gley.
 

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