gleefully
English
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Adverb
[edit]gleefully (comparative more gleefully, superlative most gleefully)
- With glee; joyfully
- 2011 January 25, Les Roopanarine, “Wigan 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport[1], archived from the original on 25 June 2022:
- Al Habsi, so outstanding at Arsenal on Saturday, somehow scrambled the ball off the line, but only as far as Agbonlahor, who gleefully nodded home his first Premier League goal since last April.
- 2021 October 29, Trevor Strunk, “How To Get Away With Making An Ultraviolent Video Game”, in Defector[2], archived from the original on 22 February 2024:
- Of course, the game that was ruining workplace productivity and infrastructure wasn’t innocent Tetris or the nationalistic Wolfenstein 3D—it was a game in which an ultraviolent marine gleefully murdered demons on a satanic Mars.
- 2025 March 5, Cameron Joseph, “After wild six weeks, Trump tells Congress ‘We are just getting started’”, in The Christian Science Monitor[3], archived from the original on 8 April 2025:
- After refusing to sit down, [Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas] was escorted out of the House chamber, as some Republican lawmakers gleefully chanted “sha-nah-nah-nah, hey hey hey, goodbye.”