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Definition of Gloating
1. Noun. Malicious satisfaction.
Generic synonyms: Satisfaction
Derivative terms: Gloat, Gloat, Gloat, Gloat
Definition of Gloating
1. Verb. (present participle of gloat) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gloating
1. gloat [v] - See also: gloat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gloating
Literary usage of Gloating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"... in a dungeon or cham- t-er of torture, grimly gloating over the bloodstained
bodies of the cardinals who had plotted against him (1384), which, ..."
2. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1850)
"gloating o'er their carrion prize, Loud the foul hyenas laughed— Grinned the
wolves, and gleamed their eyes, As the thickening blood they quaffed. ..."
3. The Story of Cawnpore by Mowbray Thomson (1859)
"... without alarm from the guns; and day-break disclosed to view hosts of adjutant
birds and vultures gloating over their carnivorous breakfast. ..."
4. Players of the Period: A Series of Anecdotal, Biographical, and Critical by Arthur Goddard (1891)
"... 1889—the first performance having been given at the Crystal Palace on September
I3th, 1888—perhaps the sensuality of the new Falstaff is gloating ..."
5. Sun Hunting: Adventures and Observations Among the Native and Migratory by Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1922)
"... DARING GAME OF CHANCE AMID TROPICAL SCENTS—AND OF THE gloating OF CHARLES
WALNUT AND HERMAN BLISTER SCENE II of this emotional cross-section of national ..."
6. The Poisoner by Gerald Cumberland (1921)
"You—gloating over me and my suffering! Where are they? ... vampire gloating,
gloating " He stopped shouting suddenly as he made a menacing step towards her; ..."
7. A Few Kind Words about Hate: The Dark Side of Family Life and the Bible by Una Stannard (2007)
"But Proverb is exceptional; the Bible usually taught the Israelites that they
didn't have to be mealy-mouthed about gloating, that they could gloat openly. ..."
8. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"On the grey wolf I lay my sovereign ban, The great grey wolf with scraping claws,
lest he Lay bare my dead for gloating foes to see— ..."
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