gloat
g loht
- n malicious satisfaction
- v dwell on with satisfaction
- v gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy
- Thus reads one verse of a famed German gloat-hymn, but the fame of the Emden will not live in gloat-verse alone.
- Calm amid the chaos was the Old Man, triumphant as usual in a political battle and gracious enough not to gloat.
- John O'Donnell, Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, who hates the New Deal and loves to gloat, found something to gloat about last week.