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# gloating

«gloating» in Mova's school dictionary: **showing that you are pleased about your own success or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) A gloating look or voice shows this nasty pleasure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x1)
- The villain was gloating over his stolen treasure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x2)
- Good winners don't go round gloating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x3)
- He gave a gloating smile when I lost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x4)
- She was gloating about her new phone all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x5)
- Gloating makes the other team feel worse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x6)
- The fox sat gloating at the trapped hen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloating/#x7)
- Our coach says: win nicely, no gloating. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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».

### 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/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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