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Gloat vs Grimace - What's the difference?

gloat | grimace |

As verbs the difference between gloat and grimace

is that gloat is to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune while grimace is .

As a noun gloat

is an act or instance of gloating.

gloat

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Verb

(en verb)
  • To exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of gloating.

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    grimace

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary and occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.
  • * "I trundle off to bed, eyes brimming, face twisted into a grateful glistening grimace , and awaken the next day wondering what all the fuss was about." — Opera News , March 2005

    • Verb

    (grimac)
  • To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.