gloating

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feeling or expressing great pleasure or satisfaction because of your own success or good luck, or someone else's failure or bad luck:

The gloating expression in his eyes had been replaced by curiosity.

He glanced at it, then at Michael, with a gloating expression.

expressions of great pleasure or satisfaction because of your own success or good luck, or someone else's failure or bad luck:

Let's be gracious in victory - no gloating, no jeering.