crowingly

adv

crowingly

adv

Etymology From crowing + -ly.

1

So as to crow; with jubilation or schadenfreude.

1902, Watson Bradshaw, "Thyestes", Act V., in The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, page 135. Wicked Atreus crowingly congratulates himself on his cruel revenge […]

Synonyms: exultantly, exultatingly, exultingly, jubilantly
Related terms: crow

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