gayety
Americannoun
plural
gayetiesExample Sentences
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The article's least complimentary part was gently ironic: "Thus did he add to the gayety of nations, the enlightenment of the people, and win the nomination."
From Time Magazine Archive
No less accomplished a talent than Ethel Waters is sprightly Marilyn Miller, who always seems illumined by a bright inward gayety.
From Time Magazine Archive
Less than nothing was added to the midtown New Year's Eve gayety.
From Time Magazine Archive
"In 1914, as a man already old, I was witness to the courage, gayety and fortitude of Paris under the German bombardment!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Her manner was languid, and her gestures without that gayety which had so marked her before.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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