gloated in English

verb

1

contemplate or dwell on one's own success or another's misfortune with smugness or malignant pleasure.

his enemies gloated over his death

synonyms: delight, relish, take great pleasure, revel, rejoice, glory, exult, triumph, crow, boast, brag, be smug, congratulate oneself, preen oneself, pat oneself on the back, rub one's hands together, rub it in

verb

• delight, relish, take great pleasure, revel, rejoice, glory, exult, triumph, crow, boast, brag, be smug, congratulate oneself, preen oneself, pat oneself on the back, rub one's hands together, rub it in
• triumph, crow

Use "gloated" in a sentence

1. Or gloated because evil befell him?

2. The miser gloated over his gold.

3. She gloated inwardly at the memory. So easy!

4. Synonyms for Boasted include bragged, crowed, crew, swaggered, swanked, swank, vaunted, gloated, blustered and exaggerated

5. Synonyms for Bragged include boasted, crowed, crew, swaggered, vaunted, blustered, gasconaded, gloated, swanked and swank

6. Having been promoted to a lofty government position, he gloated over the adulation and admiration heaped upon him.

7. The pro-Noriega Press, the only newspapers permitted to publish, gloated over the general's suppression of the coup.

8. For centuries we women have gloated over the one negative aspect of aging more evident in men than women: balding.

9. Boated coated denoted gloated toted floated quoted throated demoted misquoted promoted bloated noted voted devoted outvoted uncoated.