crowingly

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From crowing +‎ -ly.

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crowingly (comparative more crowingly, superlative most crowingly)

  1. So as to crow; with jubilation or schadenfreude.
    • 1902, Watson Bradshaw, "Thyestes", Act V., in The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, page 135.
      Wicked Atreus crowingly congratulates himself on his cruel revenge []

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