not a happy camper

Examples of happy

happy
If the ending is ultimately and abruptly happy, the pathos lingers.
Archaeologists are much happier demonstrating the poles with their data and hence working towards definitions.
This means that, at a given level of proficiency, happy, unhappy, and happiness are counted as one item.
The few women who were happy upon discovering their pregnancies did not think other people would share their feelings.
Can we possibly believe that he is doing well just because he is happy and satisfied?
This is not a happy conclusion since presentism does not seem to be the favoured theory among physicists and metaphysicians.
It is a fact that, in this century, few happy and harmonious landscapes have been painted by leading artists.
The happy man sees the world in its eternal form, sub specie aeternitatis.
I accepted these proposals in order to make him happy.
Everyone, after all, could be happy if profits were being made from books that deserved re-issuing.
Parents were happy to consider seeing a practice nurse when their child presented with otitis media.
For example, provided there is enough food, choosing to be well nourished would seem easier to achieve than choosing to be happy.
Many participants acknowledged the positive effect of activities and social participation on people's outlook, since they provided a purpose-in-life and opportunities to be happy.
The visitors did not look particularly happy but appeared convinced by these words of reason.
While today's language critics fault it, our 20th-century grammarians seem happy with the passive as a fact of life.
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