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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A gleeful grin crossed his face.
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She seemed almost gleeful when I told her Hope had been fired.
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The park was full of gleeful children playing on sleds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Payno was gleeful , for his idea was a good one.
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Sometimes she was gleeful over something she had just taught Lincoln to do.
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The locals, apparently, looked with gleeful anticipation to the coming of city folks with fat wallets.
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The old woman's mouth twisted into a smile of gleeful satisfaction, and she turned to Theda.
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When he struggled to find winners at the start of the season, the cries of gleeful recrimination reached a crescendo.