cheerfulness
- a word derived from cheerful.
Example Sentences
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Finns may not be known for demonstrative cheerfulness, nor necessarily for being makers of excessively happy music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
I don’t know Justice Thomas, but all who do attest to the man’s cheerfulness and affability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Despite this catalog of current and easily predictable future horrors, America keeps up a façade of normality: the manic cheerfulness of TV newscasters, the moronic sitcoms, the contrived crime dramas.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2025
His persistent cheerfulness was itself an act of resistance, a refusal to be broken.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2024
He accompanied them as far as the end of the wood with all the cheerfulness he could muster; only begging Hazel, out of hearing of the rest, not to underrate the danger.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
