gleefulness

Example Sentences

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Davies’ means of fighting the good fight is to preserve the gleefulness in the message.

From Salon • May 10, 2024

Yet there’s a gleefulness in watching the British realise the ineptitude of their own politicians.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2019

An attenuated mess of a black comedy, partly in rhymed couplets and lacking even a scabrous sort of gleefulness, strands a theatergoer for 90 minutes in a restless state of ennui.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2019

It’s the lack of participation on the part of the witness that gives schadenfreude its gleefulness and makes its acknowledgment permissible — your secret target has fallen and you had nothing to do with it.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2013

O Heaven! they were not men those Normans, they were storms and floods, they were fire and mad waves of ocean, that scorn with wild gleefulness the granite rock and scarped boulder!

From The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven by Ferrar, William J.