gloatingly

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adverb

In a gloating manner.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adverbgloatingly (comparative more gloatingly, superlative most gloatingly)

comparative more gloatingly · superlative most gloatingly

  1. In a gloating manner.

    “See, I told you,” he said to me, gloatingly.

    2007 May 27, Fran Giuffre, “The Curtains, the Dog, the Remark”, in The New York Times
    1 more example

    Ancestry, he thought gloatingly - but instinctively he kept this knowledge jealously.

    1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 235

Origin

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“gloatingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gloatingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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