(superl.) Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; -- opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; -- said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason.
(superl.) Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating.
(v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
(v. i.) To be glad; to rejoice.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm really glad Voiceover told me they were the Hairy Bikers or I wouldn't have realised.
(2) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
(3) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
(4) Sage did not suffer fools gladly, and often the world seemed increasingly full of them.
(5) I spoke with him, and he is glad to be back in the US.
(6) I’m glad cryonics is legal – we should all have rights over our bodies | Simon Jenkins Read more The world’s three major facilities - two in the US and KrioRus , a Russian centre on the outskirts of Moscow, differ slightly in price and ethos.
(7) With calls to boycott Amazon over its corporation tax avoidance, taxpayers may be glad of alternatives.
(8) I'm glad I didn't say I'd eat my shoe if one of Carragher and Terry didn't give away a penalty.
(9) In The gladness of life (1884: La joie de vivre) d'E.
(10) How delightful that the anti-marriage group is known as Blag and opposed by Glad – which has more background : [The] ruling comes with respect to claims brought by six married same-sex couples and one widower from the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who were denied federal tax, social security, pension and family medical leave protections only because they are (or were) married to someone of the same sex.
(11) The couple were glad about this, though modest in their ambitions for it.
(12) Holden Caulfield puts it in a slightly different way: "I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented.
(13) 3.20pm BST Reaction from drilling industry Statoil spokesperson Bård Glad Pedersen says the Norwegian oil and gas company is exploring the Arctic through a step-by-step approach that builds on decades of experience in cold water regions.
(14) I spoke to the doctor on the pitch and he said it would be all right to carry on and I am glad I stayed there.
(15) As the dust settles and the truth comes out, it’s become totally clear that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the criminals behind this fraud, and we’re glad they’re being held accountable.
(16) I'm glad to see that thanks to my calls, the Metropolitan police, the culture, media and sport select committee and the Press Complaints Commission are now investigating these claims.
(17) Benedict Brogan, who has written about this on his blog, says Cameron has "done it direct to camera (if Mr Clegg can look the voter in the eye, so can Dave), and it is interspersed with greatest hits from the crucial moments when Mr Cameron stood out from the pack as someone who is on the side of an angry electorate (these include his expenses press conference last May, his 'glad I got that off my chest' answer to Joey Jones at the manifesto launch, his defence of marriage tax, etc)."
(18) We are glad that the whole job [is] completed to mutual satisfaction and thanks to all who participated and helped to realise the biggest transfer in the club’s history.
(19) They didn't suffer fools gladly, and they ran everything with an iron fist."
(20) I was glad to receive some emails after the reversal applauding the decision as though all was forgiven and, I wondered, perhaps even soon to be forgotten.
Goad
Definition:
(v. t.) A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
(v. t.) To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) They have informed, advocated and sometimes goaded participants in a way that will be entirely familiar to people in Europe.
(2) Thereby, it serves as a goad to thinking about conflicts between pregnant women and their fetuses in a way that emphasizes relationships rather than rights.
(3) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
(4) Francesco Totti has escaped with a spell on the naughty step for goading Lazio fans in the wake of Sunday's Rome derby, but has been fined €10,000 for each thumb he pointed down in a bid to rile them up.
(5) The public conscience has been stirred and professional groups--doctors, lawyers, legislators and law enforcement agencies--goaded on many occasions by feminist groups, have deliberated the various aspects of this problem.
(6) Where Google News has a sentence that tells you what the story is, Goad notes: "Facebook often has the first paragraph, so they're stealing – if you want to use that word – more of the content."
(7) I can’t tell if he’s goading him, or wanting him to join in, or do something differently.
(8) We had two young daughters who would goad him into conversation, as children will.
(9) He used a number of accounts to goad his victims when they attempted to block his comments, saying police "would do nothing" about his tirade of abuse.
(10) Goaded, taunted and tormented by the prosecution, Pistorius was perhaps his own worst enemy during cross-examination, suffering surprising memory lapses and appearing evasive, agitated, petulant and self-contradictory.
(11) Baillie, Scottish Labour’s effective interim leader at Holyrood while the party votes on a successor to replace Johann Lamont, had goaded Salmond.
(12) To a packed Bundestag, Merkel said it was "absurd" to claim Germany was trying to "dominate" Europe – an accusation which has become ever more widespread after one of her MPs made goading comments that "Europe was now speaking German" .
(13) Locals say the gangs were goaded into the violence by others from their factions elsewhere in Rio.
(14) We have a president-elect who penned in journalists at his rallies, has continued to goad the press even after his election win, and who has history of threats against journalists.
(15) He heard the boos and the goading battle cries: "No Surrender to the IRA", "Judas!
(16) But our state must resist the temptation to be goaded into tackling complicated issues with simplistic, divisive laws.
(17) "Twitter is no longer purely in the domain of early adopters; rather it is becoming a universal tool which is being used increasingly by all types of internet users, regardless of their online preferences," Goad noted.
(18) "A typical website in the UK receives around two in every five visits from search engines and obviously, the vast majority of those come via Google," according to Robin Goad, research director at Hitwise UK.
(19) Not like at the Spectator garden party, where one eyewitness described the two cabinet ministers goading each other “like a pair of rutting stags locking antlers”.
(20) He has only ever talked about his experiences once and was angry with Frischmann for revealing this in a moment of weakness as she was being goaded about her 'privileged' upbringing.