How To Use Gleefully In A Sentence

The GOP consultant who designed the ad gleefully called the mugshot “every suburban mother’s greatest fear.” The Volokh Conspiracy » The Perils of High Public Office
But the greatest relief of all was to discover that the apartment contained a bathroom and a latrine — for, as the agent gleefully explained, the insula lay right athwart one of Rome’s main sewers, and was legally supplied with an adjutage to the water supply. The First Man in Rome
It was only when I was on the second sachet and gleefully exhorting the recalcitrant bubbling cauldron to cleanse thyself, that the Gamekeeper ran in gasping and flung all the windows open. 42 entries from November 2007
Did you applaud the hauliers and farmers and gleefully hope that their muscle would bring down the cost of fuel?
Here, we gleefully slosh about in communal pools of thick brown gloop, pouring it over ourselves with plastic pails and savouring the eucalyptus-like aroma, before washing it off under hot jets of salty spring water.

Chandra sighed and watched as the girls gleefully sorted through the assorted treasures they were unearthing.
Clarkson & Co'sdogged shilling for a thoroughly modern ie gleefully irresponsible, stonewashed brand of middle age. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
This is an attempt to bring us to a better understanding of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which the creationists - through willful ignorance - gleefully flaunt as their disproof of science.
But her narrative gains from the tangible physicality of theatre and gleefully combines eroticism and wit.
Small arcs of electricity played over its surface as his eyes danced gleefully.
If we keep this mighty nation one and inseparable, we shall have answered it forever; if not, why then those who revile man as vile and irreclaimably degraded may raise their pæans of triumph; the black spectres of antique tyrants may clap their hands gleefully in the land of accursed shadows, and hell hold high carnival, for, verily, it would seem as if they had triumphed, and that hope were a lie. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Now under the influence of a homemade hallucinogenic substance, Oscar is making another impression altogether whether he's singing and smiling gleefully, which is spooking the guests at such a somber affair, or threatening to jump from the rooftop (while naked, of course) because he mistakenly thinks that Elaine is cheating on him. Crosswalk.com - Home
I perch happily on a stool, poking gleefully at a small aquarium with a few brightly colored fish in it.
The library staff gleefully found the answers to the words that end in gry: hungry, angry (OK, those were easy), aggry (a type of ancient, variegated glass beads), meagry (having Librarian Heroes - Des Moines Register Article
The movie gleefully flaunts the fact that it is gorgeously overdone.
As only she could, Violet had noticed how Althia's reading of them irked him and gleefully added more salt to the wound by laughing merrily whenever she spoke.
The other tabloids will gleefully join in, in a frenzy of self-righteous hypocrisy.
I spent the rest of their visit gleefully boring them with tedious details.
Ahwan is remembered as a place where the keen, raw wind seems to come whistling gleefully and yet maliciously from all points of the compass, seemingly centring in the caravansarai itself; these winds render any attempt to kindle a fire a dismal failure, resulting in smoke and watery eyes. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
The air is balmy; the smiling lawns are gay with a thousand little flowers, dandelions, rock-roses, tansies and daisies, among which the harvesting Bee rolls gleefully, covering herself with pollen. Bramble-Bees and Others
By the time the risotto is ready, you'll have an aching arm and a gleefully hearty appetite. Times, Sunday Times
After nine rounds of scrunch-faced spellings and a few gleefully lucky guesses, Michael Whalon terminated his competition with "eviscerate" yesterday in the 35th annual Richmond Times-Dispatch Regional Spelling Bee. News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
While gleefully announcing that Chomsky's website has (gasp) a copyright warning, Schweizer smugly points out that the site "does give you the opportunity to 'sublicense' the material ["]. Slackbastard
My interest in Manchester's bands and their gabby, glib boss was minimal, but this is a gleefully rambunctious trip to a manky heart of darkness, with guns, deaths and prodigious amounts of drugs.
Here, the news isn't just partisan but gleefully partisan: conservative, red-in-the-face news narrowcast to the red states.
Then he announced gleefully that light bulb orders had jumped, suggesting that factories were working overtime.
A thief jumped in and drove away, but the weaving truck scattered a trail of donuts in its wake - a fragrant trail which cops gleefully homed in on.
Shielding the bright sun from her eyes with a suntanned hand and grinning widely, she opened her arms and the girl leapt gleefully into them.
However my maid had gleefully portrayed to me the details of his handsome countenance.
But we could also argue that the act of portraying the high priest of the Old Ones in such cutesy-kitschy form represents an attempt to tame, defang, and neuter the shrieking horror of our plight instead of gleefully accepting it. Archive 2010-03-01
Since passing the 2002 law, senators have gleefully cashed beaucoup campaign contribution checks from these CEOs and their lobbyists.
And didn't he up with the butt end of his gun and give him one right in the teeth, " one soldier was saying gleefully with a wide sweep of his arm.
Martyn Hunter, playing Ben, provided most of the rare comic moments - gleefully crashing on to the stage riding a stolen bicycle, and forever punctuating his speech with a sudden, wicked laugh.
'_I have made him think, I have made him think_,' he repeats gleefully; and, sure of his point, he delights in having held our attention so intently as to cause us to debate the issue with ourselves. The Book-Hunter at Home
‘She got tromped on by Sam,’ Tatiana said gleefully.
The seafood dishes were good, the vegetables wonderful, and my slurpy "Big Boy" bowl of noodles (the restaurant didn't call it that, but Hartmut Kliemt DID call it that, and my table gleefully took up the cry) was just fine. Binh Minh in Frankfurt
MZS again: "Gleefully sensationalistic and paced like an adults-only shoot-'em-up video game, [The Hills Have Eyes 2 is] ultimately less interested in subversion and subtext than in making viewers squirm, shriek and throw up into their popcorn bags. GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.
By 2004 they owned the party and applied the term gleefully to the Last Surviving Republican Moderates, Susan Collins and Olympia Snow. OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion
It's retro kitsch, wonderfully camp, gleefully perverse and exaggerated and utterly great fun throughout.
Sadly, the Full Circle weather system, having periodically bucketed on us in Africa, immediately finds us in Palau, and gleefully hurls stair-rods of rain on all and sundry for our first couple of days.
The Welsh international cleverly chested it down into the path of Earnshaw who gleefully smashed the ball home with a flashing volley.
His connections with different musical worlds are multifarious: he's assisted Philip Glass, written a film score for Stephen Daldry and worked with Björk, as well as producing his own gleefully eclectic music which already covers a huge range of genres. This week's new live music
About the only power play then left to film actors (the same lunkheads who are gleefully grinding out product now) would be to place a strike-sensitive embargo on promoting these films when they come out.
This clip of children gleefully shouting their favorite euphemisms for their bathroom ... dealings comes from the Sesame Street potty-training DVD Elmo's Potty Time. The Internet needs this
The scene in the video where Warman is sitting around with some street urchins, gleefully plotting to "humiliate" Icke told me all I needed to know: Warman wasn't about human rights, or elevating society, or the best of the human spirit. Who's afraid of Richard Warman? - Ezra Levant
Unwrapping them the next morning and gleefully comparing their contents is a joy no stage-managed event can ever provide.
Oh, and the Duck, who was one of the people we sent the rejoinder to, made this offer, which we gleefully reproduce without his permission: fisticuffs at dawn, victory by pinfall or submission, fully captured on video and up on youtube within ten minutes. it's really the answer. i'm willing to be the referee if all participants are clad in yellow swimsuits. Archive 2008-02-01
As for the title track, why not use plucked strings, craggy violin bowing, and rumbling xylophones to gleefully pervert the title's sentiment?
This writer, in his repellent movies and plays, has consistently exhibited not mature insight into the nature of evil but a prurient burrowing into gleefully accumulated muck.
He is no Richard Dawkins, gleefully machine-gunning religion while crying that we are merely receptacles for our genes.
Rally organizers gleefully play up the potential for unpleasant, unexpected catastrophe—catnip for the type of New Yorker who thrives on attempting arduous feats, from monthlong juice fasts to autorickshaw journeys. Around the World in 80 Ways
Small children weaved in and out of the wigwams, laughing gleefully.
We discover Athenian women going on a three-day binge every autumn, gleefully burying models of male genitalia.
You know, I've got to tell you, it shocks me and it kind of sickens me too, that if he goes to restaurants, people will come up to him and ask for his autograph, almost gleefully.
As every poll comes out, yours truly cheers the passage of the tumbrel bearing the Howard Government to the guillotine as gleefully as the most ragged and revolutionary tricoteuse.
Until late in the proceedings, when the story makes an unconvincing segue from hard-edged to soft, "Cripple" is as gleefully vinegary as anything McDonagh has conjured. McDonagh's 'Cripple of Inishmaan': Fiendishly funny sendup of rural Irish life
Much like the late-lamented, cantankerous Mr Dahl, most children revel in the gleefully grotesque and delightfully disgusting.
I'm shouting ‘Are you Ellie’ and Elie, complete with a mouthful of parkin, is gleefully shouting back ‘Yeth I am.’
In a thinly veiled attempt to mobilise lynch mobs, the press gleefully reported calls for the two to be hunted down and punished.
The defensive end, who missed all but three games last year with a herniated disk in his neck, said he'd rather discuss specifics once the deal was signed, but Tuck, who only just joined the ranks of the Twitterati on Tuesday, gleefully broke the news Thursday. Giants Keep Up Their Hectic Maneuvering
The hairdresser plonked me down in her spinning salon chair, took a handful of my hair and exclaimed gleefully,
Tom had triumphantly brought home the buck and gleefully called it sidehill-salmon when it was served and eaten at Frederick's own table. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
The story gave newspapers the opportunity to use their two favourite words together, resulting in the gleefully assonant “Terror Blunder”. Terror Blunder joy
Rolling snow into snowmen, gleefully compacting the beautiful flakes into firm white balls, revelling in the joy of the winter holidays.
The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself. Shelfari:
But after I lost all the adorable baby part of my baby fat and only had the fat part left, they all gleefully and fickly moved on to encouraging the show business aspirations of my younger, lighter, and perkier cousin, Debbie Aaron. Roseanne Archy
So, for example, in the sentence “I am gleefully wacky,” gleefully is an adverb because it modifies an adjective (wacky). Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Weekend Writing Exercise
He crossed the line rubbing his hands together gleefully, with all the pure pleasure of a happy 15 year old boy.
The piccaninny of the remote past chuckled gleefully as the jerked leaf returned to it. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
At this point, for reasons unguessable, the teachers gleefully shout obscenities at the car, giving their young charges a vocabulary lesson that their parents probably won't appreciate.
Hundreds of millions of viewers were captivated by the episode of Dallas in which the gleefully wicked millionaire oilman JR Ewing was shot by an unknown assailant while working late.
A competitive intelligence professional, he gleefully and guiltlessly uses deception to extract information from corporate executives for their rivals.
It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism. Gershon Hepner: William Safire
She gleefully calls attention to Hickabee's mistep with a fakey little sympathy grunt then goes on to rub it in. Palin: 'My heart goes out to Huckabee'
The comments, overheard and gleefully printed in the Liberation newspaper, have landed the French president deep in the merde on the eve of this week's crucial G8 summit in Scotland.
Whitney yowled and pounced gleefully into the mess, her tail twitching excitedly.
In any event, the kicker will be what Costello is waiting gleefully to exploit: how will they pay for it?
One shocking scene shows street children assaulting a wino and gleefully rolling him down the stairs, punishment for his spiritual and physical corruption.
The children are doubling up with laughter, pointing at each other gleefully as the clowns knock their noisemakers on their little heads as they run past.
Not only has the show reached its 15th anniversary but tonight also brings the return of the annual jamboree Hollyoaks Later, during which Hollyoaks gets to pretend it is Skins: showing flesh, gleefully swearing and generally revelling in the bacchanalian Arcadia that is post-watershed E4. The post-watershed wonder of Hollyoaks Later is worth celebrating
Arguably, though a conversation with fellow hacks who know a lot more about buses than I do left unresolved the question of whether it will prove less manoeuvrable than the surprisingly manoeuvrable articulated "bendy" buses that Boris Johnson is gleefully - and rather pointlessly - phasing out. Boris's Bus (A Political Journey) Part 33: The Finished Article
Hogg then outpaced the Beckwithshaw defence during a swift break and his square pass into the penalty-area was gleefully blasted home by Braithwaite from 12 yards.
It borders on the absurd for the mourner to dance gleefully while his parent lies dead in a fresh grave.
The revelations have been received gleefully in French publishing and literary circles, where the author is regarded as a jumped-up interloper who has defiled French literature.
The film is billed as a sophisticated comedy that gleefully mixes slapstick humour, with something a little more grown-up for all viewers.
She even overcomes the boorishness of art director Stan who, evidently quite unimpressed by her sacking of lewd cartoonist Joey a few episodes back, tries to sexually force himself on her, then gleefully lets her give her client presentation with lipstick smeared on her teeth. William Bradley: Mad Men: Breach One "Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later
Their third came when the ball was dropped at the feet of the opposing striker, who gleefully slammed the ball home.
Administrador woke us all up, and gleefully presented us with an enormous bowl of sangaree, made of the remains of the Bordeaux and the brandy and the pisco, and plenty of ice, -- ice this time, -- and sugar, and limes, and slices of pineapple, Madam, -- the which he had concocted during our slumber. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
By the end of “Follies of Science,” any modern technologist is bound to start wondering: Are our current predictions about the future any smarter than the endless parade of goofiness and gullibility that “Follies of Science” gleefully enumerates? Predictions that Never Came True | Impact Lab
She greeted the word like a new toy and, for the next three weeks, everyone and everything in her life had the r-word gleefully applied to them, from her brother to contestants on Strictly Come Dancing. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
If it weren't true, the US would have gleefully demonstrated the contrary.
With the media supporting him and gleefully reporting on leaked information about the investigation, there was no effective check on his abuse of power.
It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism. Gershon Hepner: William Safire
He kept his flying pride and joy on White Waltham airfield and to its upkeep devoted the bulk of his income, gleefully informing anyone who would listen that it left aerobic exercises out of sight as a keep-fit heart-stresser. Second Wind
The latter laughed gleefully as she saw the hand coming her way.
People leave the theatre either gleefully ruminating over what it all means, or cursing the day non-linear narrative was invented.
But you can defend people without gleefully inventing whole new insults. Times, Sunday Times
The rumbustious humor, gleefully mixing sex, scatology and food, resembles Fellini at his most burlesque, while the hints of the surreal and the supernatural recall South American magic realism.
She even overcomes the boorishness of art director Stan, who, evidently quite unimpressed by her sacking of lewd cartoonist Joey a few episodes back, tries to sexually force himself on her, then gleefully lets her give her client presentation with lipstick smeared on her teeth. William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One "Chinese Wall" and You Just Want To Breach Another One An Hour Later
Admittedly, this is much ado about nothing since the Dems control the legislature and the state, and the few state republicans left will watch gleefully as the dems once again purport to tell the voters what's good for them. ichong Patrick supports Kennedy's wish for interim senator
Windermere started brightly and twice went close themselves before an unmarked attacker gleefully took Lytham's first chance of the game.
She gleefully portrays the dual roles of Rose's flaky adoptive mother Claire and Rose's native godmother Maddie.
On the other hand it was, of course, just unrepentantly, gleefully, riding-on-a-teatray-down-the-stairs funny. Times, Sunday Times
These are the iron rules imposed by the world's most successful female pop star who has spent most of her career gleefully bulldozing the boundaries of decency on television, in films and in the pages of the press.
A fortnight, then," Gord called gleefully over his shoulder. Night Arrant
Bad Teacher is not the sole offender here... there's a coarse little entry that's currently number three at the box office called Horrible Bosses, which gleefully traffics in murder, racial stereotypes, sexual perversion and jokes about obese and handicapped people. John Farr: Is Today's Film Comedy in the Toilet?
Remy is one of their best Repo Men and he loves his job a lot, gleefully hunting down past due accounts and extracting The Union’s property. Flixnjoystix.com! » Bobert’s BigScreen Blurbs — REPO MEN! This Nasty Sci-Fi Actioner Will Make You Do The REPOSSESSION MAMBO!
I'm gleefully child-free, so I'll admit to not following these issues as closely as a parent would.
There's plenty of narcissism triggers in his background - the highly respected, distant father, whose values he gleefully desecrates even as he treats him with an almost somber respect.
I spent the rest of their visit gleefully boring them with tedious details.
Sterling ended the session by reading gleefully from a news report about a riot in Chiapas that started with a raid by the police on some vendors of pirated software, hinting perhaps at real consumer price wars in our future. Boing Boing: March 10, 2002 - March 16, 2002 Archives
But he was; she heard his shrill voice calling her name gleefully and turned round once more to see the boat gliding away at a great rate with him waving from a seat in the middle. Grasp A Nettle
For the record, let's consider the Fannie and Freddie debacle: Barney Frank in 2003 said that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were not facing any kind of financial crisis ... then we have Bill Clinton who asserted that Democrats resisted standards for two institutions ... on the top of that we now have Obama who is a top recipient of Freddie and Fannie lobbies pushing for no-doc loans, nothing-down houses, equity-line hustles, phony appraisals, in short gleefully shaking the money tree in every direction they could. The Last Debt Orgy
The birth is recorded in an odd shot of the nurse gleefully holding aloft the bloody placenta.
With parsnips and broccoli sprouting in her hair, she's gleefully grotesque and seething discreetly with misanthropic contempt. Times, Sunday Times
Ask a few leading questions and I find a man who is gleefully off-message in every respect.
People leave the theatre either gleefully ruminating over what it all means, or cursing the day non-linear narrative was invented.
This gleefully grisly British horror contains some gruesome moments. Times, Sunday Times
She stomped into the storeroom, listening gleefully as Sonia was dragged from the shop by Ritchie, still spouting vitriol. TICKLED PINK
But you can defend people without gleefully inventing whole new insults. Times, Sunday Times
He was walking with a pronounced stoop, gleefully rubbing his hands together and grinning like a maniac.
The birth is recorded in an odd shot of the nurse gleefully holding aloft the bloody placenta.
Gleefully, my offspring grabs at the gobbets of uncooked lamb, squeaking and cheeping as she voraciously devours her meal in a matter or a few minutes.
The point to this dissertation -- if point be allowed by courtesy -- is directed, in a measure, at a clergyman in this city, who told gleefully of the break of a church officer in a prayer meeting, and yet the same preacher on the following Sunday night, used, in a brief petition, the words "circumambient," "iridescent" and "corollary. Idle Comments
This gleefully grisly British horror contains some gruesome moments. Times, Sunday Times
`We had a sweepstake ,' she told me gleefully, `and guess who won? THE MANANA MAN
On her last episode, she gleefully called wussy Kate Gosselin a "city mouse," and she managed many times to guffaw over making liberals "wee wee! Bonnie Fuller: Sarah Palin's Alaska Should NOT Be Cancelled -- It's Great TV & Brilliant Marketing!
The final cost of the film was somewhere between $140m and $160m, figures gleefully quoted by negative reviewers who spied a massive flop ahoy and predicted chastening financial losses. Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people
We geeks who buy the latest and greatest will often gleefully trade work-a-rounds, hacks, or other tidbits of information needed to make things work.
the old man had greeted her gleefully
Since the other boys are doubtful, Finn takes off his clothes, climbs the tree and gleefully jumps off one of its branches, landing in the river below.
He was such a nice lad at university, and there he was gleefully encouraging the undercover reporter girl to con the electorate.
De Telegraaf gleefully reaches for another 'burkini' story. English
The latter made a grimace at the two women and gleefully hurried out behind Tu Wei - yueh.
It began on the decks of ships that brought the first slaves to the New World, where European crewmen gleefully joined the dances of their African hostages, and it continued on the plantations in the southern colonies, where masters and overseers were known to partake in the revelries in the slave quarters. A Renegade History of the United States
People leave the theatre either gleefully ruminating over what it all means, or cursing the day non-linear narrative was invented.
A large table of patrons was raising glasses and bellowing at each other gleefully.
For some one who appeared so gleefully wicked and amoral, Cleo seemed surprisingly dim when it came to character judgment.
Her detractors gleefully held up her lack of articulateness in comparison to the flowing narrative of her prose.
His clear, dreamy blue eyes twinkled joyfully and his infant voice chortled gleefully.
She caught herself using the word gleefully and felt ashamed. Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
I cheer as Reeves insists on voting for himself, stubbornly and gleefully throwing a kink into already gummy works.
In fact, politics-phobes have nothing to fear: his act is as full of gleefully silly tomfoolery as it is sharp-eyed insights into the state of the world.
For some one who appeared so gleefully wicked and amoral, Cleo seemed surprisingly dim when it came to character judgment.
‘It was a short story which I turned into a playlet,’ he explains gleefully.
And it's great fun to see Dafoe so gleefully send up a deserving Hollywood stereotype.
Keeper Robert Moore seemed to have it lowered but somehow lost it and the loose ball was rifled home gleefully by John Coleman.
The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself. Shelfari:
Jacob was overjoyed, gleefully running to the outer field with his teammates in hot pursuit.
The sensationalist press is quite content in front-paging the frenzied screams of the anti-offshoring activists - all gleefully flaunting their PhDs in `I told you so'.
Though tasting of the fruits of the first remove from the soil, she was not afraid of the soil; she could return to it gleefully and naturally. CHAPTER 6
Fair himself is a bewildering stage presence - gloriously unselfconscious, gleefully sounding out lyrics as if he's just invented them - while the reliable Fanclub provide a beautiful backdrop.
Smiling, I prance about the room, tiptoeing in and out of the sun dapples on the oak floor, and he giggles gleefully.
But after I lost all the adorable baby part of my baby fat and only had the fat part left, they all gleefully and fickly moved on to encouraging the show business aspirations of my younger, lighter, and perkier cousin, Debbie Aaron. Roseanne Archy
The result is a flawed but intriguing film that succeeds in holding your attention with a number of fine set pieces and some gleefully relaxed performances.

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