gleeful

Example Sentences

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On social media, the schadenfreude has verged on gleeful, with the public picking up on even the smallest references to confirm their priors and their thirst for justice is palpable.

From The Wall Street Journal

Last year, he brought his gleeful sense of mischief to the U.K. competition series “Taskmaster.”

From Los Angeles Times

A few newspapers, mainly around Washington, picked up the story and wrote about the volcanologists who sounded “a little gleeful,” according to one.

From Literature

When it comes to the people who are actually running the prisons, how would you describe the process in which they became either completely okay or even gleeful about their role in mass incarceration.

From Salon

Under baseball’s rules, the Dodgers are punished financially for their gleeful spending.

From Los Angeles Times