delighted in

I saw that Tester had amassed “large wealth” and delighted in “campaign-funded fine dining” that could have fed starving Montanans.

Critics delighted in the hypocrisy of a family values conservative cheating on his wife in such a sordid way, but did not stop to ponder what it must have been like to actually work for this guy.

Pete Buttigieg has delighted in sparring with the show’s more news-bound anchors on occasion, sometimes defending the policies of the Biden Administration in which he serves.

Bush, for example, delighted in trips to his ranch in tiny Crawford, Texas.

But many others delighted in his ability to stick it to pesky journalists, particularly the ones from "down south" who wore their support for the union on their sleeves.