Synonym: elated, joyful, jubilant. Similar words: gleefully, beef up, ripple effect, glee, useful, rueful, careful, doleful. Meaning: ['glɪːfʊl] adj. full of high-spirited delight.
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1. He took an almost gleeful delight in showing how wrong they can be.
2. The victory inspired him to dispatch a gleeful telegram to Roosevelt.
3. A gleeful grin crossed his face.
4. Weeping with merriment, gleeful through and through, she never relaxed her grip.
5. Now Gretel with a gleeful roar Slams shut the open oven door.
6. Her laugh was a gleeful, exuberant shout, her deep voice making it almost masculine.
7. Payno was gleeful, for his idea was a good one.
8. Sometimes she was gleeful over something she had just taught Lincoln to do.
9. The locals, apparently, looked with gleeful anticipation to the coming of city folks with fat wallets.
10. Thus Wish veers dizzily from gleeful whimsy to cosmic angst; from unconfident extroversion to manic introspection.
11. She seemed almost gleeful when I told her Hope had been fired.
12. The park was full of gleeful children playing on sleds.
13. I had not seen my father so gleeful.
14. He had a naughty schoolboy's gleeful disregard for rules.
15. He was well stirred up now; cheerful[sentencedict.com], even gleeful.
16. Yet the media show pictures of gleeful farmers buying televisions and fridges.
17. Mr. Smith was gleeful over the achievement they had made.
18. All of a sudden, Alice had a gleeful look in her eye.
19. All a sudden, Alice had a gleeful look in her eye.
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20. For all their gleeful, larky enjoyment wafting across the footlights like a blessing, these are serious virtuosi.
21. When he struggled to find winners at the start of the season, the cries of gleeful recrimination reached a crescendo.
22. The Democrats set up a committee to fire them and bring in Democrats, and Daley took part in the gleeful task.
23. The old woman's mouth twisted into a smile of gleeful satisfaction, and she turned to Theda.
24. In moments, they were snuffling at his thighs, jumping up with gleeful whines to lick his face.
25. He signed his max contract extension and scooped everyone with a gleeful proclamation on Twitter.
26. Mr Pariser's thesis is noteworthy because in contrast with Mr Morozov's gleeful iconoclasm, he is critiquing the internet from an openly progressive starting-point.
27. The Queen gives an order to hold a royal celebration. The gleeful gold birds, the lucky peacocks with burny tail feather and vigorous Blue soldiers push the celebration to climax gradually.
28. December 12, 1972, "says bemused John Davis, as Kim crinkles up his eyes behind thick glasses and cracks a gleeful grin."
29. In the desert all around are the lush golf courses and artificial pools squandering a finite, life-giving commodity, offering a kind of gleeful profligacy to those willing to pay.
30. "History makes fair judgments, " reads the text of the sprawling exhibit whose emotional peak is a life-size diorama of gleeful Tibetans tossing feudal documents into a bonfire.
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