gleeful
Example Sentences
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Hanson let out a gleeful howl when he found one rising 2 feet above his head, representing 2 feet of growth every year since the KNP Complex fire.
From Los Angeles Times
Her gleeful cruelty was matched only by the audacity of her incompetence.
From Los Angeles Times
And yes, all of this would be nitpicking, given the series’ gleeful disregard for verisimilitude.
She whirled on me, full of gleeful triumph.
From Literature
Surely, writing one’s name amid the clouds is a gleeful exploitation of the buildings’ arrested progress, laying claim to one of the few spaces where nature and the city reliably meet.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
