(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.
Taunt
Definition:
(a.) Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.
(v. t.) To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.
(n.) Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brown made mincemeat of a succession of shadow chancellors, taunting them with the contrast between the strong growth and healthy public finances under Labour and the humiliation visited upon John Major's government on Black Wednesday.
(2) In his keynote speech in Manchester , Ed Miliband taunted the prime minister for lying awake at night worrying not about the future of the United Kingdom but rather the United Kingdom Independence party.
(3) Like her bolder aunt Marine, the timid Maréchal-Le Pen complained that she suffered greatly from taunts at school that her grandad was a “fascist”.
(4) Moreover, are schoolchildren thoughtlessly taunting each other with slang such as: "That's just straight"?
(5) So it will have been a wrench for Jez, and his embattled entourage, to have to “cave in”, as the Guardian’s report put it, and suspend the MP from the party after David Cameron (who really should leave the rough stuff to the rough end of the trade) had taunted him at PMQs for not acting sooner when the Guido Fawkes blog republished her ugly comments and the Mail on Sunday got out its trumpet.
(6) The first task of the new government was to allay those fears, to reassure the 27 that when Farage turned up at the European parliamen t after the referendum, like a drunk taunting an ex-wife at a cocktail party, he did not speak for Britain.
(7) One detainee I spoke to told me of racist taunting and abuse by guards, and boredom.
(8) I’ve got no doubt that some of these people in Abbott’s government hope that something goes wrong domestically – that they can taunt a Muslim into doing something,” he said.
(9) Gerrard had been mercilessly taunted again by Chelsea’s supporters and he had played as if determined to turn the volume down.
(10) From violence to verbal taunts, abusive dating behavior is pervasive among America’s adolescents, according to a new, federally funded survey.
(11) The internet activist group Anonymous has responded to Twitter taunts from the Ku Klux Klan by taking over its US Twitter account.
(12) The colossal tarpaulin roof had actually been opened and closed regularly throughout the day, as if taunting those fans who could not attend the rescheduled game, as the locals sought to dry the surface so there was an irony this game kicked off with autumnal sunshine pouring through the concourse under the canopy.
(13) Although much of the abuse centred on the taunts about the children's disabilities, police failed to recognise it as a hate crime rather than simple antisocial behaviour, which would have made it a far higher priority.
(14) But more serious trouble flared at the site of a burned convenience store where dozens of youths, some with covered faces, ripped up street signs and taunted police.
(15) She said she refuses to let anyone inside the room, and sweeps it for cameras and “booby traps.” She said she is taunted daily about the videos, which are still online.
(16) If that pattern is repeated, Labour will be taunted over 2008 in the elections of 2020, 2025 and 2030.
(17) The video appeared to show vulnerable residents being pinned down, slapped, doused in water and taunted.
(18) Convoys that try to get out of here must run the gauntlet of taunting Christian mobs.
(19) He was one of the greatest defenders of his era, and one of the most taunted.
(20) So the decision by Ed Miliband to face down Tory taunts of being the party of welfare and launch Labour's conference last weekend with a pledge to ban the hated cut is a welcome recognition of its human costs.