0 feeling or expressing great pleasure or satisfaction because of your own success or good luck, or someone else's failure or bad luck:
The gloating expression in his eyes had been replaced by curiosity.
He glanced at it, then at Michael, with a gloating expression.
1 expressions of great pleasure or satisfaction because of your own success or good luck, or someone else's failure or bad luck:
Gloating gossip writers had jammed Scott and Annabel's home phones with their questions.
We might as well enjoy ourselves while we can before they take their gloating revenge.
Any gloating over such a tragedy would be unthinkable.
This gloating by the winning side does not do them any credit.
There's nothing more irritating than parental gloating over a child's success.
