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gloatingly en · ADV

Etymology

From gloating + -ly.

Meanings

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

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