cheerful

She was known for her positivity, cheerfulness, and sweet demeanor.
The Names You Don’t Hear: Nearly 200 Women Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan|Kate Hoit|May 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Unsavoury as it is below, there is cheerfulness, and comfort, and hard, honest work above.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Women,” Gore says, “have been socialized really differently with happiness and cheerfulness and our place in the world.
What Makes Women Happy?|Marisa Meltzer|February 21, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Women," Gore says, "have been socialized really differently with happiness and cheerfulness and our place in the world.
What Makes Women Happy?|Marisa Meltzer|February 21, 2010|DAILY BEAST

Oppose Sotomayor, if you will, on her legal opinions, not on her credentials or cheerfulness.
Is Sotomayor Getting Palin-ed?|Elaine Lafferty|May 28, 2009|DAILY BEAST
His cheerfulness was unbounded, and it was matched by his goodness of heart, his broad charity, and common sense.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
For many days he was in a state of phrensy, and was never again restored to cheerfulness.
Madame Roland, Makers of History|John S. C. Abbott
This brief conflict ended, she resumed her wonted composure and cheerfulness.
Madame Roland, Makers of History|John S. C. Abbott
One could never meet him in the street, and look into his pleasant face, without catching something of his cheerfulness.
Mike Marble|Uncle Frank
And here and there things that could ill be spared, brought in and offered with resolute cheerfulness.
The Amazing Interlude|Mary Roberts Rinehart

British Dictionary definitions for cheerful

cheerful

/ (ˈtʃɪəfʊl) /

adjective

having a happy disposition; in good spirits

pleasantly bright; gladdeninga cheerful room

hearty; ungrudging; enthusiasticcheerful help

Derived forms of cheerful

cheerfully, adverbcheerfulness, noun

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