gloatingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

gloating +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

gloatingly (comparative more gloatingly, superlative most gloatingly)

  1. In a gloating manner.
    • 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:
      Ancestry, he thought gloatingly - but instinctively he kept this knowledge jealously.
    • 2007 May 27, Fran Giuffre, “The Curtains, the Dog, the Remark”, in New York Times[1]:
      “See, I told you,” he said to me, gloatingly.