(v. i.) To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
(2) Mourinho's gloating will have done little to soothe Tottenham's anger.
(3) Next weekend's sellout UK Feminista summer school should make the gloating critics reconsider.
(4) Indeed, as gloating Argentinians poured into Rio, they feared it could become their worst nightmare.
(5) Above a fairly straightforward news story about the court’s decision to allow the country’s elected representatives a vote on the biggest constitutional upheaval in a generation, initially the headline read: “Yet again the elite show their contempt for Brexit voters!” Call me ‘remoaner-in-chief’, but I won’t be voting to trigger article 50 | Owen Smith Read more Launched within an hour of the verdict, the headline went on: “Supreme Court rules Theresa May CANNOT trigger Britain’s departure from the EU without MPs’ approval … as Remain campaigners gloat.” The copy itself provided little evidence of gloating.
(6) Cue that familiar gloating refrain from Stoke fans when Arsenal are in town: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” they crooned.
(7) Ukip leaflets gloat: “Labour will keep you in.” In Westminster I hear some Labour MPs secretly hoping a Stoke loss would ignite a “Corbyn must go” move.
(8) But isn't there a bit of him that wants to gloat; to tell all the kids who thought he was a nerd that he's now this babe magnet, this sex god, this… And now he really is flushed and flustered.
(9) After the first clásico of the season the rabidly pro-Barcelona Catalan daily Sport ran a front page that gloated that Bale was a failure who had not justified his €100m fee.
(10) They have been sharing stories of Trump voters gloating aggressively at them in the workplace since his victory, or harassing them because they are Mexican.
(11) I was personally tasked with writing a gloating follow-up declaring our postmodern victory in "blocking" the non-existent Islamic cisterns of evil.
(12) The president gloated : “So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & ABC?
(13) In the short term, Labour’s right and centre must weather the gloating of Corbyn’s supporters, who are loudly demanding that the doubters eat humble pie.
(14) The Arsenal support could afford to gloat in the closing stages of this firecracker, which ended with Wigan Athletic being burnt, and they surely knew the answer.
(15) No one has forgotten the terrible fate of the Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh , burned alive in a cage by his gloating captors.
(16) They gloat about their power "one in every seven quid spent on groceries in the UK is spent by a Sun reader".
(17) But the real answer is not to gloat over his bungled mess, but to find a positive alternative that inspires the country.
(18) Their president-elect whining about someone being mean about his restaurant, or gloating over The Apprentice’s ratings dip under Arnold Schwarzenegger.
(19) While loyalists have deployed Facebook and other social networks not only to organise protests but to issue threats to Alliance councillors , republicans and nationalists have used the sites as well as text messaging to gloat about the union flag coming down from the dome on Tuesday morning.
(20) The press - even Bild, which we bought for the flight home as a laugh - was pretty contrite, referring only to post-'66 justice, and far from gloating.
Revel
Definition:
(n.) See Reveal.
(v. i.) A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.
(v. i.) To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry.
(v. i.) To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.
(v. t.) To draw back; to retract.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obama conceded that the revelations had caused trust in the US to plunge around the world.
(2) The revelations did not alter the huge body of evidence from a variety of scientific fields that supports the conclusion that modern climate change is caused largely by human activity, Ward said.
(3) And you’re doing it three weeks after the initial revelations, and only when your position is obviously under threat and with a no confidence motion in your position as Speaker looming.
(4) Gilmore added that the revelations couldcompromise Irish attempts to win further debt relief from the European Union.
(5) Hopefully the revelations here help those inside and outside the party to clear the air and decide their own next move.
(6) It was intended, however, as a response to more radical reforms proposed by congressman Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan, and is likely to have relatively limited impact on the NSA's ability to collect data on US citizens through incidental means, the so-called backdoor provisions , which was seen as a bigger threat as Snowden's revelations continued.
(7) • The Spanish government has warned the US that revelations of widespread spying by the National Security Agency could, if confirmed, “ lead to a breakdown in the traditional trust ” between the two countries.
(8) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
(9) Nike's latest CSR report is a revelation for the amount of information they give."
(10) Sir Martin Sorrell , the chief executive of WPP, has said businesses continue to underestimate the importance the Edward Snowden's NSA electronic surveillance revelations have had on consumer attitudes to privacy and security.
(11) The revelation of the increase comes after the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and a host of senior doctors warned Theresa May in a letter that hospitals are “paralysed by spiralling demand” and the NHS “will fail” without an emergency cash injection.
(12) Snowden’s revelations have again framed the debate over the balance between our privacy rights and our need for security.
(13) Former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott said on Twitter that he will write to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt demanding that he block News Corp's bid to take full control of pay-TV company BSkyB following the revelations about Dowler.
(14) The fact that Fraser suggested Pinter write one of the pivotal scenes, in which Emma challenges Jerry to leave his wife, was a revelation, he says.
(15) What did us in here, what worked against us was this shocking revelation,” Clapper said .
(16) Couple this with the revelation that degrees might not even be worth the investment, and the sense of betrayal from those who have already graduated risks spilling over.
(17) Policy change after Snowden leaks EFF also found that the Snowden revelations about government surveillance of data have prompted technology companies to increase their protection of user data.
(18) If the president and Congress would simply obey the fourth amendment, this new shocking revelation that the government is now spying on citizens' phone data en masse would never have happened.
(19) A spokeswoman for the Guardian said the revelation of the US-UK correspondence on the destruction was disappointing.
(20) Updated at 8.30pm GMT 8.18pm GMT Clapper says NSA has spent thousands of man-hours cleaning up after the Snowden revelations , which he calls "a major distraction."