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overjoy

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Chrissy Sebald, a soccer coach and foster parent, was overjoyed last year with the district’s decision to give a free meal to all students.

HBCU advocates were overjoyed not only at the amount of money but at the vote of confidence in their work.

I have had the Honour to be known to that Prelate a long time, and was overjoy'd at the opportunity of paying my respects to him.

I was overjoy'd to be of this Party, because I had never yet travell'd this Way.

We were overjoy'd at this Deliverance, which we had Reason to think a happy one.

His overjoy at obtaining liberty, after so long a struggle for it, led to his excesses and his ruin.

Well—I am strangely overjoy'd at his coming—never to be sure was anything so damn'd unlucky!

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On this page you'll find 65 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overjoy, such as: allure, amuse, attract, charm, cheer, and content.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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