gloat

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Not to gloat, but to put all of your "successful in the first world problems" in perspective.

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malicious satisfaction

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noun

malicious satisfaction

verb

dwell on with satisfaction

verb

gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gloat.

noun

malicious satisfaction

verb

dwell on with satisfaction

verb

gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy

Example sentences

Not to gloat, but to put all of your "successful in the first world problems" in perspective.

Is it ok to gloat when someone enters a marathon and fails to finish, for example?

Yes, you get to gloat because you got lucky...However, I hope people stop and think before listening to you.

I'm not precisely sure what it is, but it seems to be the same thing that causes people to gloat when their favorite sports team wins.

I gloat a little every time an iPhone user has to ask me to do something on my Android phone.

Is it ok to gloat whenever someone announces an ambitious target, and doesn't hit it?

As someone mentioned earlier on HN, the real genius of flappy bird is the signle/double digit scores that people tend to gloat about, when they beat yours.

There's a certain amount of irony in someone complaining about how rich techies ruined SF, and then gloat about how you move to another city to do the very same thing.

Every time polls happen here people openly vote for every option to "show how broken the HN poll system is" and to "prove that PG should make it so only one option can be selected", every now and again people gloat about doing it.