gloat
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 →
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 →
- My brother gloated about beating me at chess all week. tree →
- The villain gloated over the trapped hero. tree →
- She tried not to gloat when her prediction came true. tree →
- It is unkind to gloat when someone gets told off. tree →
- «No gloating!» said the teacher after the quiz. tree →
- The fans gloated after their team won the derby. tree →
- 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 →
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».
- I may count all my bones; they look and gloat over me.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «gloat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.