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词汇 gleeful
释义 gleeful
adjective
uk /ˈɡliː.fəl/ us /ˈɡliː.fəl/
happy, excited, or pleased: 高兴的,兴奋的,欣喜的
a gleeful smile/shout欢快的笑容/喊叫
I rubbed my hands in gleeful anticipation before settling down to sleep.我兴高采烈地搓了搓手,然后安然入睡。
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glee
The manager had a gleeful smile on his face.
He seemed almost gleeful that his party had lost their majority.
The king's response was almost gleeful.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling pleasure and happiness
(as) pleased as Punchidiom
ASMR
be dancing in the streetsidiom
be floating on airidiom
be full of the joys of springidiom
cheery
chipper
chirpily
chirpy
chuffed
happily
happy camper
happy placeidiom
jaunty
jocund
sunnily
swooning
swooningly
swoony
take delight in something/doing something

Examples of gleeful


gleeful
The convicts celebrate with gleeful choruses each fresh humiliation she undergoes.
The passage insinuates that the halls themselves are nothing less than a gleeful theatricalization of public space.
The venerable tradition of the bedtime story, a story intended to soothe anxieties and ease young children into sleep, is discarded with gleeful panache.
One should not be gleeful at private grief.
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I am not in the least gleeful about these things.
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I was attacked for being gleeful, and for being sweet and reasonable.
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He would not have danced in any gleeful way, celebrating victory cheaply.
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I would rather refer to it as a gleeful or triumphant phase regarding the economy.
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I should indulge in a certain amount of gleeful laughter at the thought that some matters, particularly horse-racing, might be devolved to another department.
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I do not think, therefore, we ought to accept the view that people who are so frequently reported in this sort of way are secretly gleeful about it.
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Some of them are gleeful about it.
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It is true in the literal sense that we see them coming, but it is not true that we look forward to them with gleeful anticipation.
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I add a note of warning to all those gleeful newspaper editors who think that this might be one way of diminishing the importance of the jury.
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One of his most recognizable images shows the band in a gleeful pillow fight in a hotel room.
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Seldes, in contrast, speaks every one of her lines with gleeful, daffy relish.
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