cheerful
Example Sentences
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Fellow lodgers at his New York City boardinghouse worried as the typically cheerful, young Fairbanks grew gloomy and distracted.
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Ida’s cheerful face fell, and her older sister looked at me with a suspicious frown.
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There would need to be a formal transition, and it sounds like even a very cheap and cheerful leadership contest would be beyond the party's current bank balance.
From BBC
“Katherine’s all right and everything, but she’s too . . . cheerful about all of this,” Chip said.
From Literature
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Fred was an iguana, spiky as a dragon, with a cheerful snub nose.
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