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Told that this campaign ad is probably the greatest ever, Quast was gleeful.

Pharrell's Oscar performance of Best Original Song nominee "Happy" was just gleeful.

Bates describes the media outlets “falling over one another to describe her baby weight in gleeful detail.”

With the gleeful subhead: “After Years of Controversial Comments And Gaffes, Vice President Biden Gets Bumped From Prime Time.”

On his way to the hospital, a gleeful Chen reportedly spoke with Secretary Clinton, telling her “I want to kiss you.”

I wanted to jump and shout, but I compromised by taking Dr. Hudson down for a gleeful drink and planning our next tactic.

The result was a desperate effort at restraint, mingled with gleeful anticipation.

Gleeful, and vastly relieved, Professor Dineen slipped me twenty-five dollars out of his own pocket.

They had a gleeful anticipation that the prisoner would play some audacious pranks upon the judge.

Charlotte laughed in her face defiantly—contemptuously—with a gleeful, merry accent.

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On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gleeful, such as: blithe, blithesome, boon, cheerful, delighted, and elated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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