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Definition of Gloated
1. gloat [v] - See also: gloat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gloated
Literary usage of Gloated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curran and his contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1850)
"This was the unfortunate period of his life, upon which political antipathy and
private envy gloated with a vile envenomed gratification. ..."
2. Curran and His Contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1850)
"This was the unfortunate period of his life, upon which political antipathy and
private envy gloated with a vile envenomed gratification. ..."
3. Massachusetts: Its Historians and Its History: An Object Lesson by Charles Francis Adams (1893)
"... ever gloated over the implements of the torture chamber with more morbid
interest and pleasure than Edwards gloated over that hell, upon the prolonged ..."
4. French Cathedrals, Monasteries and Abbeys, and Sacred Sites of France by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1909)
"The sculptors appear to have gloated over the story they had to tell, dwelling
upon the anecdote as anecdote should never be gloated upon by the artist ..."
5. Mary Goes First: A Comedy in Three Acts and an Epilogue by Henry Arthur Jones (1915)
"No. Lady Bodsworth has worked the thing and this afternoon at the meeting she
was elected president. And she positively gloated over Mary. FELIX. Did she? ..."
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