gleefulness

Example Sentences

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Davies’ means of fighting the good fight is to preserve the gleefulness in the message.

From Salon • May 10, 2024

After about 24 hours, a gleefulness overtook the place, and some people swam in the president’s pool.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2022

Yet there’s a gleefulness in watching the British realise the ineptitude of their own politicians.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2019

An attenuated mess of a black comedy, partly in rhymed couplets and lacking even a scabrous sort of gleefulness, strands a theatergoer for 90 minutes in a restless state of ennui.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2019

"The candy is very sweet!" replied Mrs. Aylett, charitably, but laughing at the conceit—the low, musical laugh that was at once girlish in its gleefulness, yet perfectly well-bred.

From At Last by Harland, Marion