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    mirthful


    1. Caroline and Brian Walston, wearing a mirthful expression, appeared through the double doors carrying raincoats and umbrellas


    2. How long is this practice session supposed to last?” she asked with a mirthful grin


    3. a state of mirthful hysteria


    4. After a moment she looked at Joey with a playful mirthful smile and said, “Hey, Joey, how would you like to have your bat into a sword?”


    5. Vinny brushed off the comment with a mirthful chuckle


    6. After having spent a mirthful day at her father-in-law’s house all day, Sandhya with her husband went in the evening to her sister-in-law’s place at Andheri


    7. “How is that?” Joel asked amusedly, his eyes glowing with mirthful expectation, sure he was about hear an entertaining explanation


    8. “ Bethanie, why are you always late whenever you’re with Marcus? ” Her manner was stern, but mirthful and she tsked reprovingly as she helped me out of my wet clothes


    9. „But old fella,' I said to him in a mirthful manner, „how can you quantify for others the


    10. equally mirthful „bugger off' wave and continued with his fascinating story

    11. semantics was a soup,' he said with mirthful flair, „I should have drowned in it aeons ago'


    12. mirthful self and told the girls in a delicate, but gingerly manner, that they were to go


    13. was his ever mirthful self


    14. frightened at his threat, he assumed a mirthful and friendly air


    15. By the diversity of her humour, in turn mystical or mirthful, talkative, taciturn, passionate, careless, she awakened in him a thousand desires, called up instincts or memories


    16. Bloom shakes his head in mute mirthful reply


    17. Nor would it have been impracticable, in the observance of majestic ceremonies, to combine mirthful recreation with solemnity, and give, as it were, a grotesque and brilliant embroidery to the great robe of state, which a nation, at such festivals, puts on


    18. Here, it is true, were none of the applicances which popular merriment would so readily have found in the England of Elizabeth's time, or that of James;—no rude shows of a theatrical kind; no minstrel, with his harp and legendary ballad, nor gleeman, with an ape dancing to his music; no juggler, with his tricks of mimic witchcraft; no Merry Andrew, to stir up the multitude with jests, perhaps hundreds of years old, but still effective, by their appeals to the very broadest sources of mirthful sympathy


    19. His eyes could be mirthful one moment, flashing with rage the next


    20. Betsy broke into unexpectedly mirthful and irrepressible laughter, a thing which rarely happened with her

    21. He felt so mirthful that, contrary to his rules, he made a reduction in his terms to the haggling lady, and gave up catching moths, finally deciding that next winter he must have the furniture covered with velvet, like


    22. Half asleep, he heard the laughter and mirthful talk of Veslovsky and Stepan Arkadyevitch


    23. ‘And there’s nothing amusing, nothing mirthful, really


    24. Raskolnikov was not frightened at his threat, he assumed a mirthful and friendly air


    25. O we could hear ’em talking and laughing without, as if the Birth of a Babe were no more to ’em than an Ev’ning at a Coffee-House, and, Truth to tell, it griev’d me deeply to hear their mirthful Chatter (o’er Jests I could not share) whilst I was labouring to bring the next Generation into this World


    26. Dolokhov looked at Pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that smile of his which


    27. Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!—Will you get out of my sight?—You have no teeth!" etc


    28. Anne, despite her love of and loyalty to Green Gables, could not help thinking longingly of Patty's Place, its cosy open fire, Aunt Jamesina's mirthful eyes, the three cats, the merry chatter of the girls, the pleasantness of Friday evenings when college friends dropped in to talk of grave and gay


    29. “I am going with you!” he kept shouting, laughing a thin mirthful laugh with a look of reckless glee in his face


    30. Dólokhov looked at Pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that smile of his which seemed to say, “Ah! This is what I like!”

    31. And though there was something in the cool appraisal of his manner, in the implied familiar compliment and criticism of his words, which made me flush with displeasure, yet when I met his mirthful, amused regard, I could not but smile in answer


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    Synonyms for "mirthful"

    amusing comic comical funny laughable mirthful risible gay jocund jolly jovial merry

    "mirthful" definitions

    full of or showing high-spirited merriment


    arousing or provoking laughter