Thesaurus / gleeful
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Plus, Who Gives a Crap’s paper is so soft and smooth that your giftee is sure to thank you—just don’t expect a gleeful reaction when they first see what you’ve gotten them.
PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE GIFTS THAT ARE ALSO GOOD FOR THE PLANETRACHEL FELTMANNOVEMBER 17, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCELittle moments, like CJ coming up to Casey to apologize during his exit interview or the gleeful look on Casey’s face when CJ fetched him from his lonesome cot, suggested that these two people might actually like one another in real life.
TWO FEMINISTS WHO LOVE REALITY TV WRAP THEIR MINDS AROUND THE FBOY ISLAND FINALEELIANA DOCKTERMANAUGUST 13, 2021TIMEThe newspaper headlines—“One Running Shoe in the Grave,”—were almost gleeful.
THERE’S NEW EVIDENCE ON HEART HEALTH IN ENDURANCE ATHLETESMMIRHASHEMAUGUST 7, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEShe’s gleeful in her evilness, and there’s something very engaging about that.
EVERYTHING TO KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF CRUELLA DE VIL BEFORE WATCHING THE NEW DISNEY MOVIEANNABEL GUTTERMANMAY 28, 2021TIMEI wanted to jump and shout, but I compromised by taking Dr. Hudson down for a gleeful drink and planning our next tactic.
NINE MEN IN TIMENOEL MILLER LOOMISThe result was a desperate effort at restraint, mingled with gleeful anticipation.
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNEGleeful, and vastly relieved, Professor Dineen slipped me twenty-five dollars out of his own pocket.
TRAMPING ON LIFEHARRY KEMPThey had a gleeful anticipation that the prisoner would play some audacious pranks upon the judge.
THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ARSENE LUPIN, GENTLEMAN-BURGLARMAURICE LEBLANCCharlotte laughed in her face defiantly—contemptuously—with a gleeful, merry accent.
THE SHADOW OF ASHLYDYATMRS. HENRY WOODIt was pretty hard for Mother Bunker to say what she thought of it because of the gleeful shouts of the children.
SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT MAMMY JUNE'SLAURA LEE HOPEWORDS RELATED TO GLEEFUL
- affable
- airy
- amiable
- animated
- bantering
- blithe
- blithesome
- bouncy
- buoyant
- chaffing
- cheery
- chipper
- chirpy
- companionable
- conversable
- convivial
- cordial
- daffy
- delightful
- dizzy
- enjoyable
- facetious
- festal
- festive
- gay
- glad
- gleeful
- good-natured
- hilarious
- humorous
- jocose
- jocund
- jokey
- jolly
- jollying
- joshing
- jubilant
- larking
- lighthearted
- loony
- lots of laughs
- merry
- mirthful
- nutty
- off-the-wall
- pleasant
- sociable
- amusing
- blithe
- blithesome
- boisterous
- boon
- carefree
- cheerful
- comic
- comical
- convivial
- enjoyable
- entertaining
- facetious
- frolicsome
- fun-loving
- funny
- gay
- glad
- gleeful
- grooving
- hilarious
- humorous
- jocund
- jolly
- joyful
- joyous
- jumping
- larking
- lighthearted
- lively
- mad
- mirthful
- perky
- pleasant
- riotous
- rip-roaring
- rocking
- rollicking
- saturnalian
- sportive
- sunny
- unconstrained
- uproarious
- vivacious
- wild
- winsome
- zappy
- zingy
- zippy
- amusing
- blithe
- blithesome
- boisterous
- boon
- carefree
- cheerful
- comic
- comical
- convivial
- enjoyable
- entertaining
- facetious
- frolicsome
- fun-loving
- funny
- gay
- glad
- gleeful
- grooving
- hilarious
- humorous
- jocund
- jolly
- joyful
- joyous
- jumping
- larking
- lighthearted
- lively
- mad
- mirthful
- perky
- pleasant
- riotous
- rip-roaring
- rocking
- rollicking
- saturnalian
- sportive
- sunny
- unconstrained
- uproarious
- vivacious
- wild
- winsome
- zappy
- zingy
- zippy
- amusing
- blithe
- boffo
- camp
- campy
- cheerful
- comic
- comical
- crazy
- daffy
- droll
- facetious
- flaky
- for grins
- frolicsome
- gagged up
- gay
- gleeful
- happy
- humorous
- jesting
- jocose
- jocund
- jokey
- joking
- jolly
- joshing
- jovial
- joyous
- laughable
- lighthearted
- lively
- ludicrous
- merry
- mischievous
- playful
- pleasant
- roguish
- sportive
- teasing
- wacky
- waggish
- whimsical
- witty
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