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exult; lick lips; vaunt (over); enjoy a small triumph; gloat; gloat over; make spiteful comments (Andrey Truhachev); make spiteful remarks (Andrey Truhachev); crow (VLZ_58); enjoy a petty triumph (Did he wish for my defeat, my failure, to enjoy some petty triumph over an inferior? (Greg Bear · 2016) Nor did she seek for flaws in the characters of those who surrounded her, in order to enjoy the petty triumph of excluding them from those entertainments, they would otherwise have enjoyed (Leigh Wetherall Dickson · 2021) Edna) |