gaiety

Example Sentences

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He’s not as unapologetically hammy as Andrew Polec’s Pirelli, the tonsorial con man who adopts a fake mustache and an even faker Italian accent, but he lends the musical a satiric gaiety.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

The general gaiety of the show doesn’t mean the photos here are slight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Just seven blocks over and five blocks up from where the shell casings hit the sidewalk, they gathered for gaiety in a glitzy ballroom.

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2025

In 1842, the Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette wrote: "Such a scene of gaiety was never before witnessed on Salisbury Plain… Parties of gentlemen and elegantly dressed ladies were scattered about in all directions."

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2023

Perhaps her example may affect me as her gaiety did to-night.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker