glorying in English

verb

1

take great pride or pleasure in.

they were individuals who gloried in their independence

synonyms: take pleasure in, revel in, rejoice in, delight in, relish, savor, congratulate oneself on, be proud of, boast about, bask in, get a kick out of, get a thrill out of

verb

take pleasure in, revel in, rejoice in, delight in, relish, savor, congratulate oneself on, be proud of, boast about, bask in, get a kick out of, get a thrill out of

Use "glorying" in a sentence

1. 27 He is still glorying in the success of his first Hollywood film.

2. Glorying in her national mandate, she despised local councillors as loonie lefties or loopy liberals.

3. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

4. But the Gentlemen had not reckoned with a Bastide newly heartened by glorying in Westbourne's ignominy.

5. It'seemed to him that the house was full of leering eyes glorying in his misfortune.

6. He was a regular visitor at Dotty Harmer's, glorying in the variety of animals to be found there.

7. Both, moreover, are expert in hijacking the language of peace, while glorying in past and even continuing exploits of terror as they adeptly dodge from one phase of struggle to another.

8. He argueth also against the Cloisterers, which, leaving the only and true Saviour, set up to themselves their Franciscans, their Dominics, and such other, and have them for their saviours, glorying and triumphing in them, and feigning many forged lies upon them.

9. (b) The Government at a high level briefed our interlocutors in the concerned countries, including in the member states of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), about Pakistan’s role in aiding and abetting terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir and stressed that Pakistan’s policy of glorying anti-India terrorists and supporting cross-border terrorism had negatively affected peace and stability in the entire region.