gloatingly

English

Etymology

From gloating +‎ -ly.

Adverb

gloatingly (comparative more gloatingly, superlative most gloatingly)

1. In a gloating manner.
   • 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:

     Ancestry, he thought gloatingly - but instinctively he kept this knowledge jealously.

   • 2007 May 27, Fran Giuffre, “The Curtains, the Dog, the Remark”, in The New York Times‎:

     “See, I told you,” he said to me, gloatingly.