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cheerful

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At the Daiichi plant, the reactors were housed in six square buildings that had been painted a cheerful baby blue.

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That abomination pops out of an unsettlingly cheerful woman whose husband swoops in to offer the hitchhiking boy a ride.

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That those infected are compulsively helpful and blandly cheerful, like cult members asking you to “a party,” is no less, if not more, disturbing.

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Ordinarily, the Dawn Truce was a cheerful occasion, but on this day they had very serious matters to discuss.

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Despite being seen "as quite a cheerful man" by some, "he is a man who has been very alone -- very much torn between his family and Franco since his earliest childhood."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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