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# gloating

verb form of gloat (gloat, gloats, gloated, gloating); noun (gloating, uncountable); adjective (gloating)

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

## Everyday

1. Gloating is showing that you are pleased about your own success or about someone else's bad luck, in a smug, unkind way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#m1)
2. A gloating look or voice shows this nasty pleasure. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#m2)

### In the lessons

In stories villains gloat when they think they have won; in PE and games lessons pupils learn that gloating is bad sportsmanship. Phrases: «gloat over», «gloat about», «stop gloating», «no gloating».

### Examples

- Stop gloating, it was only a game. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x1)
- The villain was gloating over his stolen treasure. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x2)
- Good winners don't go round gloating. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x3)
- He gave a gloating smile when I lost. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x4)
- She was gloating about her new phone all day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x5)
- Gloating makes the other team feel worse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x6)
- The fox sat gloating at the trapped hen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x7)
- Our coach says: win nicely, no gloating. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x8)
- Every day he went to look at it, and would sometimes spend long hours gloating over his treasure. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x9)

### Note

Regular verb: gloat, gloated, gloating. Gloating is different from being proud: pride can be quiet and kind, gloating rubs it in. Usually followed by «over» or «about».

## On Mova

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