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# gloat

verb (gloat, gloats, gloated, gloating); noun (a gloat — rare)

«gloat» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To gloat means to show you are very pleased about your own success or about someone else's bad luck, in a smug and unkind way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#m1)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and sport, gloating is seen as bad manners: being a good winner means not gloating. In stories, a villain who gloats tells the reader they are cruel and proud. Phrases: gloat over, gloat about, no gloating.

### Examples

- Do not gloat when you win a game; shake hands instead. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#x1)
- My brother gloated about beating me at chess all week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#x2)
- The villain gloated over the trapped hero. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#x3)
- She tried not to gloat when her prediction came true. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#x4)
- It is unkind to gloat when someone gets told off. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#x5)
- «No gloating!» said the teacher after the quiz. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#x6)
- The fans gloated after their team won the derby. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#x7)
- At last this greedy and selfish old woman put down the box by the wayside and opened it carefully, expecting to gloat her eyes on a mine of wealth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#x8)

### Note

Usually followed by «over» or «about». Gloating is always negative; being happy and proud of a win is fine, gloating is rubbing it in.

## In Jewish tradition

To look at someone's misfortune with cruel pleasure. In Psalm 22 enemies stare at the suffering speaker.

**Interpretation.** The tradition reads Psalm 22 as the cry of one in deep trouble, often linked to Esther and Israel in exile. The enemies who stare are shown as cruel.

### Examples

- I may count all my bones; they look and gloat over me. (Writings PSA.22.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gloat/#x1)

### Note

Usually followed by «over» or «about». Gloating is always negative; being happy and proud of a win is fine, gloating is rubbing it in.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «gloat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «gloat» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gloat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«gloat» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/gloat.html) on Mova free.