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cheery

[cheer-ee] / ˈtʃɪər i /
ADJECTIVE
cheerful
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST


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Which leads him to yet more parts unknown, including the Hallmark offices, as bleakly nondescript as its productions are warm and cheery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Pop artist Peter Max, whose cheery psychedelic creations helped define the counterculture aesthetic in the 1960s, died on Monday, US media reported.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Despite the market’s fairly cheery mood, investors have plenty to worry about right now, Kramer said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

With its sunny elevator-music-scored opening of cheery park scenes and leafy residential neighborhoods, “Ice Cream Man” sets itself up, not unappealingly, like a Norman Rockwell painting asking to be vandalized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

It was a thick, lush blanket of color—luxurious purple and electric blue and sunshine yellow and cheery red.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

The band later had hits with much cheerier material, including "Friday I'm in Love".

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

Things were no cheerier when officials from the Department of Justice spoke to MLAs.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024

Taken together they're the closest any of us will come to knowing what it's like to pass through a black hole and emerge in a cheerier existence.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2023

A brightly lit home is cheerier and welcoming.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2023

The other is very clever at drawings and although only twenty-seven has made the world cheerier by being the father of eight children.

From Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer by Hector MacQuarrie

Their festive rush through the streets will make you fall in love with New York's cheeriest seasonal spots while longing for the moment when strangers Dash and Lily finally collide.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2024

During a 2005 interview with Mr. Knight on MSNBC, Mr. Carlson criticized him for espousing “the sickest” of beliefs but then added, “You are one of the cheeriest guests we’ve ever had.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

Defence stocks rose, rarely the cheeriest sign from a human perspective.

From Reuters ● Sep. 21, 2022

Not the cheeriest sentiment, perhaps, but — just as with the fleeting beauty of the cherry blossoms — periodical cicadas do lend themselves to verse.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2021

I went up to the manager and said in my cheeriest voice, “Good afternoon. I am from the People’s Center summer camp, and I buy dinner groceries at this store.”

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia




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