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

One need not be a football fan to enjoy this, but you do need to love love — beyond the charts and number crunching is a potent, openhearted gleefulness and sense of play.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2021

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

But she laughed such a queer laugh, as she gathered him up in her arms, that the gleefulness suddenly went out of him.

From A Melody in Silver by Abbott, Keene