gloatingly
In triumphant satisfaction
In a gloating manner—with smug, often malicious satisfaction at one's own success or another's misfortune: He gloatingly reminded her that he'd warned her this would happen.
The word emphasizes visible or verbal expression of triumph, not merely private pleasure.
In a winning manner
- winninglyIn an attractive manner
- conqueringDefeating and taking control
- dominantlyIn a ruling way
- exultantlyWith triumphant elation
jubilantly · boastfully · bragging · crowing · vaunting · flaunting · showing-off · parading
Smugly pleased with oneself
- smugExcessively self-satisfied
- smirkingSmiling with smugness
- superiorityHigher rank or quality
- self-congratulatorySmugly satisfied with oneself
complacent · pleased · triumphalist · glee · relishing · reveling · basking · savoring
victoriously
In a winning manner
- winninglyIn an attractive manner
- conqueringDefeating and taking control
- dominantlyIn a ruling way
exultantly · jubilantly · boastfully · bragging · crowing · vaunting · flaunting · showing-off · parading · celebrating
self-satisfied
Smugly pleased with oneself
- smugExcessively self-satisfied
- smirkingSmiling with smugness
- superiorityHigher rank or quality
self-congratulatory · complacent · pleased · triumphalist · glee · relishing · reveling · basking · savoring · preening
mocking
Scornfully imitating or ridiculing
deriding · ridiculing · teasing · jibing · heckling · provoking · baiting · needling · goading · ribbing
gloatinglyhumbly
Without pride or arrogance
graciously · modestly · self-deprecatingly · magnanimously · unassumingly
gloatinglysympathetically
With shared feeling
compassionately · consolingly · empathetically · generously · kindly