gleeful
adjective
full of exultant joy; merry; delighted.
gleefulness
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a word derived from
gleeful.
Example Sentences
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Davies’ means of fighting the good fight is to preserve the gleefulness in the message.
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
After about 24 hours, a gleefulness overtook the place, and some people swam in the president’s pool.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2022
Yet there’s a gleefulness in watching the British realise the ineptitude of their own politicians.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2019
An attenuated mess of a black comedy, partly in rhymed couplets and lacking even a scabrous sort of gleefulness, strands a theatergoer for 90 minutes in a restless state of ennui.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2019
The girl plumped herself in on the rear end of the buckboard and dangled her slender feet with the gleefulness of a child.
From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by George Brehm
