(superl.) Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.
(superl.) Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts.
(superl.) Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(2) Infants were habituated to models posing either prototypically positive displays (e.g., happy expressions) or positive expression blends (e.g., mock surprise).
(3) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.
(4) United and West Ham are on similar runs and can feel pretty happy about themselves but are not as confident away from home as they are at home and that will have to change if they are to make ground on the top teams.
(5) Not even housebuilders are entirely happy, although recent government policies such as Help to Buy and the encouragement of easy credit have helped their share prices rise.
(6) I’m so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London,” said Sánchez.
(7) As for gay men, there is absolutely nothing that suggests they are any less war-happy than heterosexuals.
(8) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(9) That latter issue is quite controversial in Germany, where the Bundesbank is not happy about surrendering control to the ECB .
(10) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(11) Outwardly, his life was successful, happy, on course.
(12) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
(13) John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, said the landowners his group represents "are obviously not happy" that the beetles are being removed.
(14) I was just happy he got his licence back so I could clean him out."
(15) He is an academy product and truthfully we are, and me above all, happy to have him with us.
(16) Thirty-two nursing students were shown silent films in which 10 normal and 10 schizophrenic women described a happy, sad, and an angry personal experience.
(17) Indeed, the distribution of couples according to a multifactorial risk index does in fact establish a connection between the couple's happiness and the level of risk during sexual relations within and outside the couple.
(18) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
(19) I can calmly say that his future will still be at Juventus, where he feels very happy,” he parped.
(20) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
Harpy
Definition:
(n.) A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.
(n.) One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
(n.) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
(n.) A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whatever else Valérie Trierweiler has been portrayed as – vengeful harpy, ambitious meddler, undignified ex – she is also a woman who has had her heart broken.
(2) British feminists being as niggardly in the Sun 's respect as they are about subsidising lap-dancing clubs, visiting Formula One brothels and subscribing to the late men's magazine, Nuts , a periodical brought to its knees by jealous harpies.
(3) "Everything has declined, especially big mammals, there used to be harpy eagles flying in the sky, sloths hanging from trees, but oil exploration is killing the rainforest.
(4) By failing to confront our ghouls – and their tabloid harpies – we merely let them haunt us again.
(5) I’ve said a lot of shit in my life – and you can certainly quote me on the record using that word – but I would never suggest anything like that.” Things Erickson has suggested include the notion that “Obama’s marxist harpy wife would go Lorena Bobbitt on him” – Bobbitt was a Virginia woman who in 1993 cut off her husband’s penis – should he even think about it”.
(6) They hand out an humorous flyers to the public, congratulating men on successfully keeping "harpies and gossips" out of their ranks and maintaining all power within their wonderfully firm male grasp.
(7) In person, Brick is relaxed and delightful company – nothing like the arrogant harpy I'd been led to expect.
(8) Or rather, she was a sort of ultra-acerbic clown: an outlandishly dressed and painted pixie-harpy, who said whatever she liked.
(9) Enter Parsifal, a "pure fool" and Christ-like redeemer figure, who alone can resist the lure of Klingsor's harpies, restore the spear to the knights, cure Amfortas and give Klingsor's arch-temptress Kundry the release from earthly life she so ardently desires.
(10) Forget Donald Trump – Megyn Kelly won the Republican debate Read more Erickson himself, however, has a long history of making disparaging remarks about women, including calling first lady Michelle Obama a “marxist harpy” and Texas politician Wendy Davis “abortion Barbie”.
(11) Elle Fanning is that scheming harpy, Princess Aurora aka Sleeping Beauty.
(12) She has been pilloried as the scorned woman and the vindictive harpy.
(13) The mood swings were back with a vengeance – plunging me into unplumbable depths of despair and turning me into an irascible harpy in the days before my period.
(14) It’s less the White House than the Black Tower, sending out its Breitbartian orcs and alt-right winged harpies to poison the politics of a nation.