gloatation
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English
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[edit]gloatation (uncountable)
- (rare, informal, slang, nonstandard) Gloating
- 1997, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, page 256:
- I passed the Southern Fuel Co. yesterday and saw old Wagner at the window with a fiendish smile of gloatation on his face as he looked out on the sufferings of the widows and orphans. Little does he care if they all freeze.