as in to brag
to show in an improper or selfish way that you are happy with your own success or another person's failure
After such a tough campaign, they're gloating over their victory in the election. All right, you won. There's no need to gloat about it.
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Recent Examples of gloat
Mamdani slammed for using kids in campaign videos after gloating about social media-free childhood.
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FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Nina not being there contributed to one of the most irritating moments in this season so far, with Antonio smugly blowing a kiss into the camera for her and gloating about being in the top after her harsh critique last week.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
Images of Labubus beamed malevolently from their packaging, as if gloating in their unreachability.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
In June, a livestream of UCLA’s graduation paused on a graduate who gloated for the camera about ChatGPT ostensibly doing his final exams for him.
—Lindsey Witmer Collins, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Nina not being there contributed to one of the most irritating moments in this season so far, with Antonio smugly blowing a kiss into the camera for her and gloating about being in the top after her harsh critique last week.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
Images of Labubus beamed malevolently from their packaging, as if gloating in their unreachability.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
In June, a livestream of UCLA’s graduation paused on a graduate who gloated for the camera about ChatGPT ostensibly doing his final exams for him.
—Lindsey Witmer Collins, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gloat
brag
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California has slipped a notch in the bragging-rights totem pole to the world’s fifth-largest economy in the latest update on global business output.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
16 Oct. 2025
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Bo Nix looks like the guy Sean Payton bragged about this offseason to every national reporter that came through Denver.—
Joe Nguyen,
Denver Post,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Gloat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gloat. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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