(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.
Gloat
Definition:
(v. i.) To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
(2) Mourinho's gloating will have done little to soothe Tottenham's anger.
(3) Next weekend's sellout UK Feminista summer school should make the gloating critics reconsider.
(4) Indeed, as gloating Argentinians poured into Rio, they feared it could become their worst nightmare.
(5) Above a fairly straightforward news story about the court’s decision to allow the country’s elected representatives a vote on the biggest constitutional upheaval in a generation, initially the headline read: “Yet again the elite show their contempt for Brexit voters!” Call me ‘remoaner-in-chief’, but I won’t be voting to trigger article 50 | Owen Smith Read more Launched within an hour of the verdict, the headline went on: “Supreme Court rules Theresa May CANNOT trigger Britain’s departure from the EU without MPs’ approval … as Remain campaigners gloat.” The copy itself provided little evidence of gloating.
(6) Cue that familiar gloating refrain from Stoke fans when Arsenal are in town: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” they crooned.
(7) Ukip leaflets gloat: “Labour will keep you in.” In Westminster I hear some Labour MPs secretly hoping a Stoke loss would ignite a “Corbyn must go” move.
(8) But isn't there a bit of him that wants to gloat; to tell all the kids who thought he was a nerd that he's now this babe magnet, this sex god, this… And now he really is flushed and flustered.
(9) After the first clásico of the season the rabidly pro-Barcelona Catalan daily Sport ran a front page that gloated that Bale was a failure who had not justified his €100m fee.
(10) They have been sharing stories of Trump voters gloating aggressively at them in the workplace since his victory, or harassing them because they are Mexican.
(11) I was personally tasked with writing a gloating follow-up declaring our postmodern victory in "blocking" the non-existent Islamic cisterns of evil.
(12) The president gloated : “So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & ABC?
(13) In the short term, Labour’s right and centre must weather the gloating of Corbyn’s supporters, who are loudly demanding that the doubters eat humble pie.
(14) The Arsenal support could afford to gloat in the closing stages of this firecracker, which ended with Wigan Athletic being burnt, and they surely knew the answer.
(15) No one has forgotten the terrible fate of the Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh , burned alive in a cage by his gloating captors.
(16) They gloat about their power "one in every seven quid spent on groceries in the UK is spent by a Sun reader".
(17) But the real answer is not to gloat over his bungled mess, but to find a positive alternative that inspires the country.
(18) Their president-elect whining about someone being mean about his restaurant, or gloating over The Apprentice’s ratings dip under Arnold Schwarzenegger.
(19) While loyalists have deployed Facebook and other social networks not only to organise protests but to issue threats to Alliance councillors , republicans and nationalists have used the sites as well as text messaging to gloat about the union flag coming down from the dome on Tuesday morning.
(20) The press - even Bild, which we bought for the flight home as a laugh - was pretty contrite, referring only to post-'66 justice, and far from gloating.