gleeful

Example Sentences

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Before, the Israeli press had seemed almost gleeful in its attacks on Heifetz for daring to play music by a banned composer.

From New York Times

Her gleeful support of the Philadelphia Phillies as they went to the World Series became the pride of her hometown and the talk of White House briefings.

From Washington Post

Democrats and other critics of former President Donald Trump greeted the spectacle of his arrest on Tuesday with a blend of gleeful schadenfreude and far more muted initial reactions.

From Seattle Times

“I told them not to laugh at you for April Fools’,” a gleeful Che finally admitted.

From Los Angeles Times

Blanco acknowledged the club’s failures — brought on, she felt, by the pressures of venture capital — but was unsettled by the gleeful dismantling of so many women’s invisible labor.

From Los Angeles Times