gleeful

Example Sentences

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The photo of these women, who are downright gleeful in their cruelty, speaks volumes.

From Salon

They led by 11 after the first quarter, 17 at halftime, 33 after three, and they just kept piling it on, so much that Jack Nicholson spent the game looking like a gleeful cherub.

From Los Angeles Times

Jurors also saw the string of gleeful messages that Proud Boys members posted during the Jan. 6 riot.

From Washington Times

In Deborah Andrews and Bunny Christie’s gleeful costumes — Christie also devised the set — Wallace and Schoenmaker make for sparkling comic leads.

From Washington Post

She also shows some gleeful scorn as she overdubs her voice into a mocking horn section, trumpeting “tararatata” as she demolishes any hopes of reconciliation.

From New York Times