(a.) Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(2) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(3) At best I would like to think about this as Project Cheer; we’re going to be upbeat about this.
(4) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
(5) Male patients were more cheerful during encounters with younger assistant nurses while female patients were more cheerful when interacting with older assistant nurses.
(6) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
(7) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
(8) There was indeed a crowd of “Women for Trump” cheering at the event.
(9) He'll watch Game of Thrones , from now on, as a cheerfully clueless fan, "with total surprise and joy", and meanwhile get on with other work.
(10) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
(11) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
(12) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
(13) From one of his hospital visits Marr recalls a woman, eight months pregnant, who had suffered a stroke: "There are people far worse off than me who are so incredibly brave and cheerful.
(14) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
(15) Cheers erupted at a camp for 100,000 displaced Christian civilians at the French-controlled airport .
(16) The jeers were meaningful and the cheers, well, they just were a sign of entertainment.
(17) "I had spent my teen years listening to Germaine Greer and Susie Orbach talking about female intellect," she says, and cheers all round.
(18) Updated at 4.23pm BST 3.19pm BST 54 mins "Afternoon Ian," cheers Simon McMahon.
(19) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(20) Officers in riot gear at a number of points later drew batons and clashed with members of the crowd, hours after the protest began gathering in central London at around 6pm before massing near parliament, where fireworks were let off to cheers.
Cheerily
Definition:
(adv.) In a cheery manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) A bout a year ago, a few months before she left sixth-form college, my youngest daughter asked cheerily: "What will you feel when you have no one left to wave goodbye to in the morning?"
(2) Keith Richards , after all, used to indulge in speedballs of cocaine and heroin with such regularity that he cheerily referred to the toxic cocktail as "the breakfast of champions".
(3) a note written in ominous red on its website cheerily reads.
(4) "I wrote four songs this morning," he boasts cheerily.
(5) "I've completely fucked my life," she admits cheerily.
(6) Duncan's began so cheerily "Hi Gang …" that I felt immediately calmed.
(7) We are all going to die, madame,” he told me cheerily one morning, while chopping vegetables.
(8) Models in full riot body armour and chemical survival suits waved cheerily for photographs, while one stall holder demonstrated a black breathing mask for use in a nuclear attack next to a tray of boiled sweets and a pot of free pens.
(9) Trying to understand the backwards film spurs the narrator to flares of inventive phrasing, but his voice has something else, too: a crackle of cliché.The narrator is cheerily ready with "no bowl of cherries .
(10) This route is designed for keen mountain-bikers, and I found it almost impossible to navigate the part-slush, part-powder path: I confess that at this point I got off and pushed, causing one passerby to call out cheerily, “It’s called fatbiking not fatwalking” as they sped past on crosscountry skis.
(11) Savile worked shifts and visited patients at the West Yorkshire infirmary from at least 1968 and was known for cheerily pushing the ill around on trolley beds into operating theatres.
(12) When they informed the PCT, it cheerily said that the GP had "been on their radar for ten years".
(13) Instead, they're scrubs-clad Casualty actors, lunch-breaking and lounging in the mid-June sun, overlooked by the cheerily vacant streets of long-running Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm.
(14) Next time a leaver cheerily tells you that Brexit has had no economic impact, you don’t have to just roll your eyes and remind them we’re still in the EU.
(15) So it's something of a surprise to find the newly installed chief executive of Global Radio , handed the job as part of a shuffling of the deck while its protracted takeover of GCap goes before the Competition Commission, cheerily making small talk with staff.
(16) She then paused until the audience's surprised roars subsided, before adding cheerily: "But tonight's nominees have proved me wrong."
(17) So when I heard someone cheerily singing along to bhangra in his allotment on the edge of Southam, I followed the tune.
(18) I think I could hum the bank's jaunty holding jingle backwards because I heard it so often and if one more customer services person had said cheerily: "No problem", when I'd just outlined precisely what the problem was, I'd have screamed.
(19) Today, though, she marches cheerily across Sam Eyde Street for all the world as if heading for the beach, sits on a bench, lights up a cigarette, and lifts her face to the light.
(20) But meeting Hoorn – a cheerily pragmatic artist with little time for the machinations of the UK music scene – inspired him to rip it up and start again.