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English
Etymology
From gloating + -ly.
Adverb
gloatingly (comparative more gloatingly, superlative most gloatingly)
- 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 New York Times:“See, I told you,” he said to me, gloatingly.