Jon Meacham

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

American Editor

Peter Hitchens

Gleeful, unembarrassed ruthlessness, once rightly kept in check, has become normal among us, and 'Game Of Thrones' is a success because this change is now more or less complete.

English Journalist

Zach Galligan

The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.

American Actor

Claire Fox

I have no truck with the faintly conspiratorial argument that international governments are gleeful about a public-health emergency to enact authoritarian measures.

British Writer

John Rhys-Davies

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

Welsh Actor

Pamela Druckerman

When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful.

American Writer

Use 'gleeful' to describe situations with a strong, positive emotional impact.

Positive Emotion

'Gleeful' is often used in casual, informal settings rather than in serious or formal contexts.

Informal Contexts

'Gleeful' implies a higher level of excitement compared to just being 'happy'.

Intensity

 which was, "Wow, somebody's screwed! Somebody's life is about to get terrible!" And I sat up in my bed, and I put the pillow behind my head, and then I thought, I'm not entirely sure that joke was intended to be racist. Maybe instead of gleefully flaunting her privilege, she was mocking the gleeful flaunting of privilege.

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 leaks of these pelicans sitting ducks in front of them only when the pelicans back off on their gluttony and let go of some of their cash can they surface and enjoy the bounty and their peace leaving the end shall be banquet down below once more to these gleeful gluttons

Gleeful

Positive Emotion

Informal Contexts

Intensity

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