gleefully

[glee-fuhl-ee]

adverb

1. with exultant, often mischievous joy or delight; merrily.

   My little niece snapped a photo of her mama and gleefully showed us the image she just captured.

Other Word Forms

• ungleefully adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of gleefully¹

First recorded in 1730–40; gleeful ( def. ) + -ly ( def. )

Example Sentences

He might also have done something with mystery writer Ruth Ware’s “The Woman in Cabin 10,” other than moving “The Lady Vanishes” from a train to a boat and then going quite gleefully overboard.

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Tessier's score shortly after the restart was gleefully celebrated by Canada who sensed it was the one that put them out of reach.

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One reviewer called the film "a feature-length ad for Kerala tourism" that "gleefully bulldozes over all possibilities of any cultural nuance".

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Trailing 47-0 to England in Northampton, Samoa gleefully got on the board by registering their first points of this World Cup through the boot of Harmony Vatau.

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She gleefully told him to “stick your Subway sandwich somewhere else” in a video shared on social media earlier this month.

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