(n.) Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.
(n.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prime minister told the Radio Times he was a fan of the "brilliant" US musical drama Glee, preferred Friends to The West Wing, and chose Lady Gaga over Madonna, and Cheryl Cole over Simon Cowell.
(2) They talk of cutting down to size , of hiving off, of limiting the scope, with all the manic glee of a doctor urging his patient to consider the benefits of assisted suicide.
(3) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
(4) He lost no time climbing on the back of the clown car of the demagogue who, with ghoulishly oedipal glee, he calls “Daddy”.
(5) Today the TV show Glee depicts small town Ohio as a place where a teenage boy can openly express his homosexuality.
(6) But the new micro-institutions of journalism already bear the hallmarks of the restrictive heritage they abandoned with such glee.
(7) The answer, apparently, is comedian Eddie Izzard , along with a whole fleet of red-carpet English entertainers , who are to be driven north to bring shine and glee to the rather dreary Project Fear .
(8) James Monroe Iglehart, who plays the manic Genie in Aladdin, won for best featured actor in a musical and could barely contain his glee as he thanked a long list of people that included God and his wife.
(9) Those growing up in the gloomy postwar period remember his films with glee, especially the three My Favourite .
(10) The earphones were with Eva, 11, who was listening to the soundtrack of Glee at a loud enough level to produce that particularly annoying mixture of hiss and thud.
(11) In the last photos of her, taken barely 10 minutes before the Russian bombs landed, she shows off a new bracelet and freshly painted nails with glee, then squeezes a kiss from her squirming baby sister.
(12) City were ahead again before half-time, Santa Cruz dummying over Shaun Wright-Phillips' centre for Bellamy to plunder the goal he so richly deserved, but three is not enough to guarantee City victory these days, and Kenwyne Jones, on as substitute, headed in from four yards to get Wearside's barmy army crowing with glee.
(13) Anthony Glees, director of the centre for security and intelligence studies at the University of Buckingham, said: "The fact that these people were killed by an IED (improvised explosive device) might suggest not just that this is a very dangerous place but that the Afghans aren't particularly good at delivering security."
(14) Tory right-to-buy plan threatens mass selloff of council homes Read more Labour councils, responding to the squalor and overcrowding of Victorian and Edwardian cities, and the graphic failure of private landlords and developers to deal with it – indeed the glee with which some of them exploited it – had constructed much of Britain’s early municipal housing in the 1900s.
(15) They jeered each time the soldiers sallied forth and fired off a round or threw a stun grenade, mocking them and chanting with unflagging glee.
(16) Rusbridger also questioned the claims of Britain's security chiefs that the Guardian's revelations had undermined national security and – in the words of the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers – left al-Qaida rubbing its hands in glee.
(17) It has Democrats on the congressional committee salivating with glee.
(18) Mr Glees insisted the files he saw were not the same as those obtained by MI5 through official channels.
(19) Gone are the days when winning The Apprentice meant a lifetime spent buffing Lord Sugar's paperclip collection while weeping with glee in a stationery cupboard off the A1023.
(20) The hyperbole that followed yesterday’s story was astonishing – Professor Anthony Glees reportedly branded Snowden “a villain of the first order” – Darth Vader eat your heart out.
Gleeful
Definition:
(a.) Merry; gay; joyous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
(2) The joke, the uncontainable amusement, the gleeful satisfaction, was that most rational people had thought that he was too disabled to walk 26 miles, that he was too sick.
(3) That said, a year or two ago I watched Pappy’s gleeful sketches (on a stage about a mile away) at Latitude and it seemed like something stretching back to music hall.
(4) Yet for anyone who has woken up in the early hours worried and scared by Trump, this gleeful display of sheer satisfaction with life may seem a bit rich.
(5) The original Sharknado (tagline: “Enough said!”) made waves in 2013 for its gleeful disregard for scientific fact and so-bad-its-amazing dialogue.
(6) We never revel in it in any sort of gleeful or nihilistic sense; but, on the other hand, we want to be clear-eyed and realistic about these choices Walter has made and this world he's forced himself into."
(7) Full of gleeful scorn, the Daily Kos’s Jed Lewison used the report to say that conservatives think that Benghazi is in Cuba.
(8) Less than four months later, amid rancour, rifts and reams of gleeful commentary in the mainstream Italian media, the euphoria of that stunning breakthrough appears largely to have evaporated.
(9) The gleeful ANC claimed this proved what it had been saying all along: that the DA protects the privilege of Cape Town's affluent suburbanites while kicking its township dwellers in the teeth.
(10) His old swagger was restored and by the time he crossed the line after accelerating away from Gatlin as they rounded the back of the curve, it had become a gleeful strut and he thumped his chest in celebration.
(11) Perhaps more interesting than the drop-off in erotic activity is the gleeful way that it is reported; a mixture of prurience and self-laceration driving these frantic swan songs for our sexual lives.
(12) Despite the diversity of his career, a common thread throughout all his films, from the gleeful highs of Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Romance, The Last Boy Scout and Crimson Tide, to the deadening lows of his first film The Hunger, Revenge and Domino (Keira Knightley plays a bounty hunter – let us speak no more about it), is the whizz-bang-chop-cut style.
(13) Who couldn't be stirred by the gleeful noir of the opening theme , nor by the Boccherini Minuet that the film makes famous again (their cover story is they're an amateur string quintet)?
(14) 'Ten years a minor academic in a provincial university," says Phillip Blond, with a kind of gleeful amazement, "and then suddenly, it all changed."
(15) was the gleeful headline, last summer, in a report by the Sun that claimed he was playing "wages poker" with Inbetweeners producers.
(16) Three hours of sexual and pharmacological excess, wanton debauchery, unfathomable avarice, gleeful misogyny, extreme narcotic brinksmanship, malfeasance and lawless behaviour is a lot to take, and some have complained of the film's relentlessness, which, if understood in formal terms, I think may be one of its main aims.
(17) for hours at a time, despite you spending £300 fitting a cat flap into the double glazing, just through sheer gleeful bloody mindedness.
(18) A gleeful Abbott hit that one out of the park: "The important thing is that the measures have been put in place which have dramatically slowed boat arrivals – that is the important thing.
(19) But the gleeful response to Piketty's "errors" on the rightwing Twittersphere did not happen because some FT pointy-heads discovered a few fat-finger inputs.
(20) Although it cheered his gleeful backbenchers, he must privately worry at how slowly the undoubted good news is translating into economic optimism and identifiable votes for the Conservative party to harvest.