Meanings
comparative more gloatingly · superlative most gloatingly
- 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 Times1 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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