gleeful

Example Sentences

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When it comes to the people who are actually running the prisons, how would you describe the process in which they became either completely okay or even gleeful about their role in mass incarceration.

From Salon

Under baseball’s rules, the Dodgers are punished financially for their gleeful spending.

From Los Angeles Times

“This is a ball team,” said Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh, gleeful after his team won for the sixth time in seven games.

From Los Angeles Times

It is replaced by gleeful boos and screams of laughter at a beautifully timed 6-7 reference.

From BBC

Then she laughs—a gleeful, inhuman, full-throated laugh that contorts her body into unnatural angles and positions.

From Literature