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# gloat

«gloat» in Mova's school dictionary: **very pleased about your own success or about someone…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#m1)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#x1)
- My brother gloated about beating me at chess all week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#x2)
- The villain gloated over the trapped hero. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#x3)
- She tried not to gloat when her prediction came true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#x4)
- It is unkind to gloat when someone gets told off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#x5)
- «No gloating!» said the teacher after the quiz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/#x6)
- The fans gloated after their team won the derby. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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 the corpora

- [And Ruby, beaten by a gloating boy, simply said «good game».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/21/)
- [I may count all my bones; they look and gloat over me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.325/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gloat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.