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    gleeful


    1. When it dawned on them that I knew what they were up to, they burst into shameless sniggers and gleeful squeaks having been caught out having so much barefaced fun


    2. Seeing this the tiger was very gleeful, 'Such a big thing as you can do so little!' With a roar he pounced on the donkey and ate it up


    3. Twenty-four hours a day, prostitutes milled about and tourists slammed tequila down their throats, often becoming incoherent within minutes, while the bargirls in their company, intent upon the contents of their wallets, sipped expensive cocktails of colored water and offered gleeful encouragement


    4. watching me with gleeful enjoyment, had draped me over a


    5. It took Hilderich a while to respond to Amonas’ question, but he did so in a gleeful voice despite the condition he was in:


    6. Then, it said with a gleeful note in its voice:


    7. I can conceive of no explanation for the failure of my drowning save the intervention of some hostile divinity, gleeful to see me suffer more


    8. A gleeful round of snickers filled the wagon


    9. Standing next the fireplace, Nick looked on with gleeful anticipation


    10. He did, and there was a moment in that occasion when they talked about their past, together, in pleasant terms and even with gleeful emotion

    11. I gave her a gleeful grin to show my excitement in the progress of my plan


    12. ” Lorna nearly fell over backwards in fright when a stag leapt out from its hiding-place amongst the heather, almost under their feet, and fled into the woods with the dogs in hot and gleeful pursuit, howling at the tops of their voices


    13. It looked so stupid when she was done that it made her morose, but Frankie was gleeful, and they ended up laughing at it


    14. She imagined Conan similarly situated across the corridor, but her feminine vanity prompted her to visualize him as scowling and muttering with chagrin as he cast himself on his solitary couch, and she grinned with gleeful malice as she prepared herself for slumber


    15. No other single factor exerted such a powerful influence on him, in his final determination to forsake Jesus and his fellow apostles, as a certain episode which occurred just as Jesus reached the gate of the city: A prominent Sadducee (a friend of Judas's family) rushed up to him in a spirit of gleeful ridicule and, slapping him on the back, said: "Why so troubled of countenance, my good friend; cheer up and join us all while we acclaim this Jesus of Nazareth the king of the Jews as he rides through the gates of Jerusalem seated on an ass


    16. Nautglum’s eyes were closed, but he could hear the littlest ones with their gleeful screams and high-pitched laughs


    17. The palette of the sky warmed with a gleeful pink hue


    18. “It’s cold!” A gleeful smile spread across her tired face


    19. Joey held the sword just beneath the two faces and lifted it, examining it with a gleeful glow in his eyes


    20. His eyes danced and he had an almost gleeful smile on his arrogant, Slavic face

    21. With a gleeful ‘ Hah! ’ the bait ducked and scuttled and immediately the brick corner


    22. Was the allegiance the western scientists displayed to their cause not the same as Hitler's generals gleeful embrace of theirs? This is a debate that could continue into eternity! Whatever the conclusion, there is one undeniable and absolute fact! Hitler's generals would never know what it would be like, to live in a world, had they been victorious!


    23. gleeful hatred and there were a number of happy sideways glances


    24. It’s as though men are prone to policing their wives than husbanding them! And, as if to celebrate the poetic justice to their predicament, won’t women turn gleeful whenever they cuckold their caretakers?’


    25. They were quickly bagged, payment was received, and once she was out of sight, they did a secret little high-five under the table with a gleeful grin


    26. Spurius went back to his gleeful enjoyment of the games as he looked up at the Decanus standing next to their seats, "I can't wait for Kabaakia! He’s supposed to be amazing!"


    27. Others looked gleeful with barely concealed smiles


    28. The screams of the Fae followed us, high-pitched, gleeful and filled with excitement


    29. Sorren mounted the Kajin and it let out a gleeful cry


    30. She stirred a combination of receipts, mementoes, paper clips, hair bands, fluff and miscellaneous bits of her life until with a small gleeful cheer she found the five dollar bill she was looking for and held it up to the frowning but still phone affixed waitress

    31. matter-of-factly, but PP heard it as gleeful treachery, his favorite form of betrayal


    32. With a gleeful expression on his freckled face, the little boy ran helter-skelter towards the unsuspecting woman directly ahead of him


    33. At her gleeful squeal, Joel and the others jumped in surprise, and then stared in astonished silence as the two women joyously greeted each other, with the happy camaraderie of two old friends being unexpectedly reunited


    34. She robbed me of my gleeful moment


    35. No outsider, much less a woman, has ever been allowed to set foot inside this sanctuary! ” His countenance was obscured by a huge cowl and his dreadful laugh was filled with gleeful malice


    36. Like a Shepherd after a bolting ewe – with a gleeful grin for a fresh chase – the trooper sprang to his feet


    37. It was laughing, its eyes gleeful and insane


    38. Her companion had given it to her the previous week, gleeful to provide such a fancy gift to his beloved


    39. This time, a few lingered, gleeful


    40. Hugh gave a gleeful explanation, “Came this morning, wages for the painting from the council

    41. At night, it could be quite gleeful, provided his timing was just right, to leap out from behind corners and scare the washer-women who worked in the laundry rooms


    42. To gleeful Jerry it seems comical again that Sammy brings him to his crooked privacy


    43. A gleeful Ned proposed that we return the next day to this magic island, which he planned to depopulate of its every edible quadruped


    44. The wind seemed as though lying in wait for her; with gleeful whistle it tried to snatch her up and bear her off, but she clung to the cold door post, and holding her skirt got down onto the platform and under the shelter of the carriages


    45. The children ran ahead with frightened and gleeful shrieks


    46. ' I had not seen my father so gleeful since he found two pages of second-century papyrus between the leaves of a Lombardic breviary


    47. (Our home itself will be taken over by a noisy couple, hubby-wife lawyers who are shamelessly, brazenly gleeful at this buyers’-market deal


    48. Must of them were gleeful, delighted with what


    49. They’re expecting the worst, and they’re gleeful about the disastrous outcome…


    50. On the contrary, the deviations made from his theory were, in his opinion, the sole cause of the whole disaster, and with characteristically gleeful sarcasm he would remark, ‘There, I said the whole affair would go to the devil!’ Pfuel was one of those theoreticians who so love their theory that they lose sight of the theory’s object- its practical application




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    Synonyms for "gleeful"

    elated gleeful joyful jubilant gay light-hearted merry mirthful glad jolly buoyant

    "gleeful" definitions

    full of high-spirited delight