Gloat \Gloat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gloated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gloating}.] [Akin to Icel. glotta to smile scornfully, G. glotzen to gloat.] To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; to gaze with passionate desire, lust, or avarice.
2. To gaze with malignant satisfaction; to exult maliciously, sometimes also triumphantly, in another's loss or discomfort; -- usually in a bad sense.
In vengeance gloating on another's pain. --Byron.
Bush's aides were careful not to gloat, but said it was as good as over.
The Welsh reaction was to gloat - again proving themselves superior to their oldest and bitterest rivals.
Gorbachev, believed to have encouraged the ouster of hard-line East German leader Erich Honecker and the dizzying reforms that led to the Berlin Wall's opening, warned Westerners not to gloat over the demise of Communism in the East bloc.
Stanley Druckenmiller, who manages Strategic Aggressive and Strategic Investing, doesn't gloat over his better-than-average performance lately.
"I believe too strongly in the potential of these mirrors to try anything else." This is the first international crisis in which the dollar has fallen instead of rising, Kevin Phillips and Michael Kinsley gloat.
"This is not a time of euphoria, certainly not a time to gloat," Mr. Bush told the nation.
It was the Polish-born pontiff's strongest warning yet not to gloat over communism's decline and not to ignore the problems of materialism and poverty.
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has warned Westerners not to gloat over the shaky condition of communism in the East bloc and cautioned that "exporting capitalism" could hurt the growing climate of cooperation in Europe.
UNO has asked its supporters to go straight home after work and not to gloat in victory or even provide a target for an incident.