gleeful
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Marshall brokered a cease-fire between a dismayed Chiang and gleeful Communists in January 1946: It was meant to last for two weeks but “became a four-month truce that changed the course of the civil war.”
The story is goofy and the trashing of Philly is gleeful.
On social media, the schadenfreude has verged on gleeful, with the public picking up on even the smallest references to confirm their priors and their thirst for justice is palpable.
Last year, he brought his gleeful sense of mischief to the U.K. competition series “Taskmaster.”
From Los Angeles Times
A few newspapers, mainly around Washington, picked up the story and wrote about the volcanologists who sounded “a little gleeful,” according to one.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
