merriment

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Issa is solidly built, close-shaved, stern in command but given to bouts of merriment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

A festival on a sandbar brought 90 minutes of merriment to hundreds of people in the Isles of Scilly.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025

There shall be no more merriment, and in the words of Nat King Cole, it is time to straighten up and fly right.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

But in L.A., the kids began running around the stage in wild merriment, still playing, still on the beat.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2024

Innocent of the tragedy that threatened it, the town poured into the main square in a noisy explosion of merriment.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez